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Summary and Highlights of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences--T. J. Wilson, R. E. Bell, P. Fitzgerald, S. B. Mukasa, R. D. Powell, and C. Finn
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... Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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... In sharp West Antarctic rift system and the associated Transantarctic contrast to current frigid polar conditions, abundant subMountains. Considerable debate at the symposium centered tropical fossil plants are commonly found in Antarctic rocks.
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... Recent discoveries of to the Wilkes Land margin that is now scheduled during the fossil plants and insects in the Dry Valleys shows that small International Polar Year. bushes of southern beech, Nothofagus, along with mosses The first drilling season of ANDRILL in the McMurdo and beetles, persisted in Antarctica during the mid-Miocene Ice Shelf Project yielded an unprecedented record of at least (Ashworth et al., 2007)
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... the tectonic setting of the Lachlan Fold belt in Antarctica. In Antarctica: The International Polar Year 2007-2008 is motivated by A Keystone in a Changing World -- Online Proceedings for the Tenth both our changing planet and the quest to explore unknown International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, eds.
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... Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World -- Online Proceedings for 2007. Insight into the geology of the East Antarctic hinterland: Study the Tenth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, USGS of sediment inclusions from ice cores of the Lake Vostok borehole.
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... 2007. Advances through col Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World -- Online Proceedings for laboration: Sharing seismic reflection data via the Antarctic Seismic the Tenth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, eds.
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