German-Italian Geological Antarctic Map Programme, The Italian Contribution - A Map Case for 30 Years of the Italian Research Programme in Antarctica (1985-2015) - Terra Antartica Reports No. 15

PC & F Tessensohn Pertusati

ISBN 10: 8888395121 / ISBN 13: 9788888395128

Published by Terra Antartica Publication, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: German-Italian Geological Antarctic Map Programme, The Italian Contribution - A Map Case for 30 Years of the Italian Research Programme in Antarctica (1985-2015) - Terra Antartica Reports No. 15
• Publisher: Terra Antartica Publication
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8888395121
• ISBN 13: 9788888395128
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The eight geological maps coordinated and produced by the Italians were printed and published in the period of 1997-2012. This map case was created as a contribution of the Italian National Antarctic Museum and Terra Antartica Publication in occasion of the 30th anniversary of PNRA 1985-2015. Since the beginning of the 1980's northern Victorian Land has been the main geological research area of both, German and Italian Antarctic programmes. In 1995, both teams began a collaborative geological mapping programme under the acronym of GIGAMAP (German-Italian Geological Antarctic MAp Programme) for the entire area of northern Victoria Land. The aim was the publication of a series of 1:250 000 geological reconnaissance maps. The data and observations acquired during the mapping activities have allowed to reconstruct a better defined picture of the geological evens that occurred during the Palaeozoic Ross Orogeny and of the distribution and meaning of the sedimentary and volcanic cycles in the time frame from Carboniferous to Jurassic times. In a more general sense, this extended mapping project contributed to a better understanding of the evolution of the Pacific margin of Antarctica, which has been active from the early Palaeozoic to present with shifting positions of the active zone along the margin, the initial process of its fragmentation and the origin of the Transantarctic Mountains.