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Atmospheric Science

Bromwich, D.H., Du, Y., Parish, T.R. (1994) Numerical simulation of winter katabatic winds from West Antarctica crossing Siple Coast and the Ross Ice Shelf. Mon. Wea. Rev., 122: 1417-1435.

Carrasco, J.F., Bromwich, D.H., Liu, Z. (1997) Mesoscale cyclone activity over Antarctica during 1991, Part 1: Marie Byrd Land. J. Geophys. Res., 102(D12): 13,923-13,937.

Carrasco, J.F., Bromwich, D.H., Monaghan, A.J. (2003) Distribution and characteristics of mesoscale cyclones in the Antarctic: Ross Sea east to the Weddell Sea. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131: 289-301.

Curry, J.A., Maslanik, J., Holland, G., Pinto, J. (2004) Applications of aerosondes in the Arctic. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85: 1855-1861.

Fogt, R.L., Bromwich, D.H. (2006) Decadal variability of the ENSO teleconnection to the high latitude South Pacific governed by coupling with the Southern Annular Mode. J. Climate, 19: 979-997.

Knuth, S.L.; Tripoli, G.J.; Thom, J.E. and Weidner, G.A., 2010. The influence of blowing snow and precipitation on snow depth change across the Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea regions of Antarctica. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Volume 49, Issue 6,  pp.1306-3121

Nigro, M.A., J.J. Cassano, M.A. Lazzara, and L.M. Keller, 2012: Case study of a barrier wind tip jet off the coast of the Prince Olav Mountains, Antarctica. Mon. Wea. Rev., accepted.

O'Connor, W.P., Bromwich, D.H., Carrasco, J.F. (1994) Cyclonically forced barrier winds along the Transantarctic Mountains near Ross Island. Mon. Wea. Rev., 122: 137-150.

Parish, T.R., Bromwich, D.H. (1998) A case study of Antarctic katabatic wind interaction with large-scale forcing. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126: 199-209.

Parish, T.R., Cassano, J.J., Seefeldt, M.W. (2006) Characteristics of the Ross Ice Shelf air stream as depicted in Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 111: D12109, doi:10.1029/2005JD006185.

Parish, T.R., J.J. Cassano, and M.W. Seefeldt, 2006: Characteristics of the Ross Ice Shelf air stream as depicted in Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D12109, doi:10.1029/2005JD006185.

Powers, J.G., Monaghan, A.J., Cayette, A,M, Bromwich, D.H., Kuo, Y-H., Manning, K.W. (2003) Real-time mesoscale modeling over Antarctica: The Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84: 1533-1545.

Seefeldt, M.W. and J.J. Cassano, 2008: An analysis of low-level jets in the greater Ross Ice Shelf region based on numerical simulations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 4188-4205, DOI:10.1175/2008MWR2455.1.

Seefeldt, M.W. and J.J. Cassano, 2011: A description of the Ross Ice Shelf air stream (RAS) through the use of self-organizing maps (SOMs). J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

Seefeldt, M.W., J.J. Cassano, and T.R. Parish, 2007: Dominant regimes of the Ross Ice Shelf surface wind field during austral autumn 2005. J. Appl. Meteor. and Clim., 11, 1933-1955, doi:10.1175/2007JAMC1442.1.

Thompson, D.W., Wallace, J.M. (2000) Annular modes in the extratropical circulation. Part I: Month-to-month variability. J. Climate, 13: 1000-1016.

Turner, J., Pendlebury, S. (2004) The International Antarctic Forecasting Handbook. Available from http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/ant/handbook/handbook_16june04.pdf

Beacon Supergroup

Askin, R.A. (1998) Floral trends in the Gondwana high latitudes: palynological evidence from the Transantarctic Mountains. J. African Earth Sci., 27(1A): 12-13.

Barrett, P.J., Elliot, D.H., Lindsay, J.F. (1986) The Beacon Supergroup (Devonian-Triassic) and Ferrar Group (Jurassic) in the Beardmore Glacier area, Antarctica. In: Turner, M.D., Splettstoesser, J.F. (Eds.), Geology of the central Transantarctic Mountains. Antarctic Research Series, Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C., 339-428.

Collinson, J.W., Elliot, D.H., Isbell, J.L., Miller, J.M.G. (1994) Permian-Triassic Transantarctic Basin. In: Veevers, J.J., Powell, C.McA. (Eds.), Permian-Triassic Pangaean Basins and Foldbelts along the Panthalassan margin of Gondwanaland. Geol. Soc. Am. Mem. 184: 173-222.

Collinson, J.W., Hammer, W.R., Askin, R.A., Elliot, D.H. (2006) Permian-Triassic boundary in the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 118: 747-763.

Cúneo, N.R., Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N., Krings, M. (2003) In situ fossil forest from the upper Fremouw Formation (Triassic) of Antarctica: Paleoenvironmental setting and paleoclimate analysis. Palaeogeog., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 197: 239-261.

Elliot, D.H. (1996) The Hanson Formation: a new stratigraphical unit in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Antarctic Sci., 8(4): 389-394.

Elliot, D.H., and Fanning, C.M., 2008.  Detrital zircons from upper Permian and lower Triassic Victoria Group sandstones, Shackleton Glacier region, Antarctica: Evidence for multiple sources along the Gondwana plate margin. Gondwana Research 13, 259-274.

Elliot, D.H., Fanning, C.M., Ziga, J. (2005) Detrital zircon evidence from Permian-Triassic sandstones for a contemporaneous magmatic arc in the Antarctic sector of the Panthalassan margin. In: Pankhurst, R.J., Veiga, G.D., (Eds) Gondwana 12: Geological and Biological Heritage of Gondwana, Abstracts, Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Córdoba, Argentina, 145.

Farabee, M.J., Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N. (1990) Correlation of Permian and Triassic palynomorph assemblages from the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 65: 257-265.

Hammer, W.R., Hickerson, W.J. (1994) A Crested Theropod Dinosaur from Antarctica. Science, 264: 828-830.

Isbell, J.L. (1999) The Kukri Erosion Surface; a reassessment of its relationship to rocks of the Beacon Supergroup in the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Antarctic Sci., 11(2): 228-238.

Isbell, J.L, Askin, R.A. (1999) Search for evidence of impact at the Permian-Triassic boundary in Antarctica and Australia: Comment and Reply. Geology, 27(9): 859-860.

Isbell, J.L., Seegers G.M., Gelhar, G.A. (1997) Upper Paleozoic glacial and post-glacial deposits, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. In: Martini, I.P. (Ed.), Late glacial and postglacial environmental changes: Quaternary, Carboniferous-Permian, and Proterozoic. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 230-242.

Isbell, J.L., Miller, M.F., Wolfe, K.L., Lenaker, P.A. (2003) Timing of late Paleozoic glaciation in Gondwana: was glaciation responsible for the development of northern hemisphere cyclothems? In: Chan, M.A., Archer, A.W. (Eds), Extreme depositional environments: mega end members in geologic time. Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap., 370: 5-24.

Isbell, J.L., Lenaker, P.A., Askin, R.A., Miller, M.F., Babcock, L.E. (2003.) Reevaluation of the timing and extent of late Paleozoic glaciation in Gondwana: Role of the Transantarctic Mountains. Geology, 31: 977-980.

Krull, E.S., Retallack, G.J. (2000) *13C depth profiles from paleosols across the Permo-Triassic boundary: evidence for methane release. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 112: 1459-1472.

McManus, H.A., Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N., Collinson, J.W. (2002) A petrified Glossopteris flora from Collinson Ridge, central Transantarctic Mountains: Late Permian or Early Triassic? Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 120: 233-246.

Miller, M. F., Hasiotis, S. T., Babcock, L. E., Isbell, J. L., Collinson, J. W. (2001) Tetrapod and large burrows of uncertain origin in Triassic high paleolatitude floodplain deposits, Antarctica. Palaios, 16: 218-232.

Retallack, G.J., Seyedolali, A., Kroll, E.S., Hosier, W.T., Ambers, C.P., Kyte, F.T. (1998) Search for evidence of impact and the Permo-Triassic boundary in Antarctica and Australia. Geology, 26: 979-982.

Retallack, G.J., Metzger, C.A., Greaver, T., Jahren, A.H., Smith, R.M.H., Sheldon, N.D. (2006) Middle-Late Permian mass extinction on land. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., 118: 1398-1411.

Sidor, C.A., Damiani, R., Hammer, W.R. (2008) A new Triassic temnospondyl from Antarctica and a review of Fremouw Formation biostratigraphy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28: 656-663.

Sidor, C.A., Steyer, J.S., Damiani, R. (2007) Parotosuchus (Temnospondyli: Mastodonsauridae) from the Triassic of Antarctica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27: 232-235.

Sidor, C.A., Miller, M.F., Isbell, J.L. (2008) Tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Antarctica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28: 277-284.

Smith, N.D., Crandall, J.R., Hellert, S.M., Hammer, W.R., Makovicky, P.J. (2011) Anatomy and affinities of large archosauromorphs from the Lower Fremouw Formation (Early Triassic) of Antarctica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31: 784-797.

Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N. (1992) Reproductive biology of the Permian Glossopteridales and their suggested relationship to flowering plants. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA, 89: 11495-11497.

Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N., Cúneo, N.R. (1992) The present is not the key to the past: A polar forest from the Permian of Antarctica. Science, 257: 1675-1677.

Taylor, E.L., Taylor, T.N., Cúneo, N.R. (2000) Permian and Triassic high latitude paleoclimates: evidence from fossil biotas. In: Huber, B.T., MacLeod, K.G., Wing, S.L (Eds.), Warm Climates in Earth History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 321-350.

Biology/Ecology

Ball, B.A., R.A. Virginia, J.E. Barrett, A. Parsons, D.H. Wall. (2009) Interactions between physical and biotic factors influence CO_2 flux in Antarctic dry valley soils, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41 (7): 1510-1517. DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.04.011

Christner, B.C., M.L. Skidmore, J.C. Priscu, M. Tranter and C.M. Foreman (2008) Bacteria in Subglacial Environments, In Psychrophiles: from biodiversity to biotechnology, R. Margesin et al. (eds.), 51-71 Springer Verlag.

Esposito R.M.M., Spaulding S.A., McKnight D.M., de Vijver B.V., Kopalova K., Lubinski D., Hall B., Whittaker T. (2008) Inland diatoms from the McMurdo Dry Valleys and James Ross Island, Antarctica, Botany-Botanique, 12: 1378-1392.

Hawes, I., C. Howard-Williams and A.G. Fountain (2008) Ice-based freshwater ecosystems, In Polar Lakes and Rivers: Limnology of Arctic and Antarctic Aquatic Ecosystems, W. F. Vincent and J. Laybourn-Parry (eds) (eds.), Oxford University Press.

Herbei R., W. Berry Lyons, Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Christopher Gardner, John C. Priscu, Diane M. McKnight (2010) Physiochemical properties influencing biomass abundance and primary production in Lake Hoare, Antarctica, Ecological Modelling, 221: 1184-1193.

Knoepfle J.L., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Lyons W.B., Galchenko V.F (2009) Particulate organic and dissolved inorganic carbon stable isotopic compositions in Taylor Valley lakes, Antarctica: the effect of legacy, Hydrobiologia, 632: 139-156.

Lanoil, B., M. Skidmore, J. C. Priscu, S. Han, W. Foo, S. W. Vogel, S. Tulaczyk, and H. Engelhardt (2009) Bacteria beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Environmental Microbiology, 11 (3): 609-615.

Lewis, A.R. et al. (2008). Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica. PNAS 105: 10676-10680. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802501105

McKnight, DM, MN Gooseff, WF Vincent, and BJ Peterson. (2008) High Latitude Rivers and Streams, In Polar Lakes and Rivers Limnology of Arctic and Antarctic Aquatic Ecosystems, WF Vincent and J Laybourn-Parry(eds.), , 83-102 Oxford University Press.

Mikucki J.A., Pearson A., Johnston D.T., Turchyn A.V., Farquhar J., Schrag D.P., Anbar; A.D., Priscu J.C., Lee P.A. (2009) A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous "Ocean", Science, 324: 397-400.

Priscu, J.C. and C.M. Foreman (2009) Lakes of Antarctica, In Encyclopedia of Inland Waters volume 2, G.E. Likens (eds.), , 555-566 Elsevier Press.

Simmons B.L., Wall D.H., Adams B.J., Ayres E., Barrett J.E., Virginia R.A. (2009) Long-term experimental warming reduces soil nematode populations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 41: 2052-2060.

Spaulding, S.A., McKnight, D.M., Stanish, L., Van de Vijver, B. and Hodgson, D. 2010. Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic freshwaters. In: Smol, J. and E.F. Stoermer (eds). The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge pp. 267-286.

Takacs-Vesbach, C., L. Zeglin, M.A. Gooseff, J.E. Barrett, and J.C. Priscu (2010) Factors promoting microbial diversity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, In Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogues, P Doran, WB Lyons, and DM McKnight, (eds.), Cambridge Press.

Wall, D. H., M. A. Bradford, M. G. St. John, J. A. Trofymow, V. Behan-Pelletier, D. E. Bignell, J. Mark Dangerfield, W. J. Parton, J. Rusek, W. Voigt, V. Wolters, H. Zadeh Gardel, F. O. Ayuke, R. Bashford, O. I. Beljakova, P. J. Bohlen, A. Brauman, S. Flemming, J. R. Henschel, D. L. Johnson, T. H. Jones, et al. (2008) Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate dependent, Global Change Biology, 14: 1-17.

Zeglin L.H.; Sinsabaugh R.L., Barrett J.E., Gooseff; M.N., Takacs-Vesbach C.D. (2009) Landscape Distribution of Microbial Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Linked Biotic Processes, Hydrology, and Geochemistry in a Cold Desert Ecosystem, Ecosystems, 12: 562-573.

Crust

Allibone, A., Wysoczanski, R. J. (2002) Initiation of magmatism during the Cambro-Ordovician Ross orogeny in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 114: 1007-1018.

Borg, S.G., DePaolo, D.J., Smith, B.M. (1990) Isotopic structure and tectonics of the central Transantarctic Mountains. J. Geophys. Res., 95: 6647-6669.

Encarnación, J., Grunow, A. (1996) Changing magmatic and tectonic styles along the paleo–Pacific margin of Gondwana and the onset of early Paleozoic magmatism in Antarctica. Tectonics, 15: 1325-1341.

Goodge, J.W., Fanning, C.M. (2002) Precambrian history of the Nimrod Group, central Transantarctic Mountains. In: Gamble, J.A., Skinner, D.N.B., Henrys, S. (Eds.), Antarctica at the close of a millennium. Royal Soc. N.Z. Bull., 35: 43-50.

Goodge, J.W., Fanning, C.M., Bennet, V.C. (2001) U-Pb evidence of ~1.7 Ga crustal tectonism during the Nimrod Orogeny in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Implications for Proterozoic plate reconstructions. Precamb. Res., 112: 261-288.

Goodge, J.W., Williams, I.S., Myrow, P. (2004a) Provenance of Neoproterozoic and lower Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks of the central Ross orogen, Antarctica: Detrital record of rift-, passive-, and active-margin sedimentation. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 116: 1253-1279.

Goodge, J. W., Hansen, V. L., Peacock, S.M., Smith, B.K., Walker, N.W. (1993) Kinematic evolution of the Miller Range shear zone, central Transantarctic Mountains. Tectonics, 12: 1460-1478.

Goodge, J.W., Myrow, P., Philips, D., Fanning, C.M., Williams, I.S. (2004b) Siliciclastic record of rapid denudation in response to convergent-margin orogenesis, Ross orogen, Antarctica. In: Bernet, M., Spiegel, C. (Eds.), Detrital thermochronology. Geol. Soc. Am., Spec. Pap., 378: 105-126.

Goodge, J.W., Vervoort, J.D., Fanning, C.M., Brecke, D.M., Farmer, G.L., Williams, I.S., Myrow, P.M., and DePaolo, D.J., 2008. A positive test of East Antarctica-Laurentia Juxtaposition with the Rodinia Supercontinent. Science 321, 235-240.

Paulsen, T., Encarnación, J., Grunow, A. (2004) Structure and timing of transpressional deformation in the Shackleton Glacier area, Ross orogen, Antarctica. J. Geol. Soc. London, 161: 1027-1038.

Rowell, A.J., Rees, M.N., Cooper, R.A., Pratt, B.R. (1988) Early Paleozoic history of the central Transantarctic Mountains: Evidence from the Holyoake Range, Antarctica. N.Z. J. Geol. Geophys., 31: 397-404.

Rowell, A.J., van Schmus, W.R., Storey B.C., Fetter, A.H., Evans, K.R. (2001) Latest Neoproterozoic to mid- Cambrian age for the main deformation phases of the Transantarctic Mountains: new stratigraphic and isotopic constraints from the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. J. Geol. Soc. London, 158: 295-308.

Stump, E. (1995) The Ross orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 284pp.

Cryosphere

Brunt, K.M., Fricker, H.A., Padman, L., Scambos, T.A., and O’Neel, S., 2010.  Mapping the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica using ICESat laser altimetry.  Annals of Glaciology, v.51(55), p.71-79.

Davis, C.H., Li, Y., McConnell, J.R., Frey, M.M., and Hanna, E., 2007.  Snowfall-driven growth in East Antarctic ice sheet mitigates recent sea-level rise.  Science, v.308, p.1898-1901.

Dupont, T.K., and Alley, R.B., 2005.  Assessment of the importance of ice-shelf buttressing to ice-sheet flow.  Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L04503, doi:10.1029/2004GL022024.

Gagliardini, O., Durand, G., Zwinger, T., Hindmarsh, R.C.A., and LeMeur, E., 2010.  Geophysical Research Letters, v.37, L14501, doi:10.1029/2010GL043334.

Holland, D.M., Jacobs, S.S., and Jenkins, A., 2003.  Modelling the ocean circulation beneath the Ross Ice Shelf.  Antarctic Science, v.15(1), p.13-23.

Stearns, L.A., 2011.  Dynamics and mass balance of four large East Antarctic outlet glaciers.  Annals of Glaciology, v.52(59), p.116-126.

Ferrar Large Igneous Province

Airoldi, G., Muirhead, J.D., White, J.D.L. & Rowland, J.  2011.  Emplacement of magma at shallow depth: Insights from field relationships at Allan Hills (South Victoria Land, East Antarctica).  Antarctic Science, 23, 281-296.

Antonini, P., Piccirillo, E.M., Petrini, R., Civetta, L., D’Antonio, M., Orsi, G. (1999) Enriched mantle – Dupal signature in the genesis of the Jurassic Ferrar tholeiites from Prince Albert Mountains (Victoria Land, Antarctica). Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 136: 1-19.

Elliot, D.H.,  Fleming, T.H.  2008.  Physical volcanology and geological relationships of the Ferrar large Igneous Province, Antarctica.  Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 172, 20-37.

Elliot, D.H., Fleming, T.H. (2000) Weddell triple junction: The principal focus of Ferrar and Karoo magmatism during initial breakup of Gondwana. Geology, 28: 539-542.

Elliot, D.H., Fleming, T.H. (2004) Occurrence and dispersal of magmas in the Jurassic Ferrar Large Igneous Province, Antarctica. Gondwana Res., 7: 223-237.

Elliot, D.H., Fleming, T.H., Kyle, P.R., Foland, K.A. (1999) Long Distance Transport of Magmas in the Jurassic Ferrar Large Igneous Province, Antarctica. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 167: 67-104.

Ferris J.K., Storey, B.C., Vaughan, A.P.M., Kyle, P.R., and Jones, P.C. (2003) The Dufek and Forrestal intrusions, Antarctica: A centre for Ferrar Large Igneous Province dike emplacement? Geophys. Res. Lett. 30: 1348, doi:10.1029/2002GL016719.

Fleming, T.H., Foland, K.A., Elliot, D.H. (1995) Isotopic and chemical constraints on the crustal evolution and source signature of Ferrar magmas, North Victoria Land, Antarctica. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 121: 217-236.

Fleming, T.H., Heimann, A., Foland, K.A., Elliot, D.H. (1997) 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Ferrar Dolerite sills from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Implications for the age and origin of the Ferrar magmatic province. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 109: 533-546.

Hanson, R.E., Elliot, D.H. (1996) Rift-related Jurassic basaltic phreatomagmatic volcanism in the central Transantarctic Mountains: precursory stage to flood-basalt effusion. Bull. Volcanol., 58: 327-347.

Heimann, A., Fleming, T.H., Elliot, D.H., Foland, K.A. (1994) A short interval of Jurassic continental flood basalt volcanism in Antarctica as demonstrated by 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 121: 19-41.

Hergt, J.M., Brauns. J.M. (2001) On the origin of the Tasmanian dolerites. Aust. J. Earth Sci., 48: 543-549.

Leat, P.T., Luttinen, A.V., Storey, B.C. & Millar, I.L.  2006.  Sills of the Theron Mountains, Antarctica: Evidence for long distance transport of mafic magmas during Gondwana break-up.  In: Hanski, E.,  Mertanen, S., Rämö, T. & Vuollo, J. (eds.).  Dyke Swarms - time Markers of Crustal Evolution.  London, Taylor & Francis, 183-199.

Marsh, D.B. (2004) A magmatic mush column Rosetta Stone: The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Amer. Geophys. Union, EOS 86(47): 497, 502.

Minor, D., Mukasa, S. (1997) Zircon U-Pb and hornblende 40Ar-39Ar ages for the Dufek layered mafic intrusion, Antarctica: Implications for the age of the Ferrar large igneous province. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 61: 2497-2504.

Molzahn, M., Reisberg, L., Wörner, G. (1996) Os, Sr, Nd, Pb, O isotope and trace element data from the Ferrar flood basalts, Antarctica: evidence for an enriched subcontinental lithospheric source. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 144: 529-546.

Muirhead, J.D., Airoldi, G., Rowland, J.V., & White, J.D.L.  2012.  Interconnected sills and inclined sheet intrusions control shallow magma transport in the Ferrar large igneous province.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, 124, 162-180.

Reubi, O., Ross, P.-S. & White, J.D.L. 2005.  Debris avalanche deposits associated with large igneous province volcanism: An example from the Mawson Formation, central Allan Hills, Antarctica.  Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 117, 1615-1628.

Riley, T.R., Leat, P.T., Storey, B.C., Parkinson, I.J., Millar, I.L. (2003) Ultramafic lamprophyres of the Ferrar large igneous province; evidence for a HIMU mantle component. Lithos, 66: 63-76.

Ross, P-S., White, J.D.L. & McClintock, M.K. 2008.  Physical volcanology of mafic volcaniclastic deposits and lavas in the Coombs-Allan Hills area, Ferrar large igneous province, Antarctica.  Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 172, 38-60.

Glacial Geology, Surficial Processes and Landscape Evolution

Ackert, R.P., Kurz, M.D. (2004) Age and uplift rates of Sirius Group sediments in the Dominion Range, Antarctica, from surface exposure dating and geomorphology. Global Planet. Change, 42: 207-225.

Ashworth, A.C., Kuschel, G. (2003) Fossil weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from latitude 85 degrees S Antarctica. Palaeogeog., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoceol., 191(2): 191-202.

Ashworth, A.C., Preece, R.C. (2003) The first freshwater molluscs from Antarctica. J. Molluscan Studies, 69:89-92.

Bockheim, J.G. (1995) Permafrost distribution in the southern circumpolar region and its relationship to environment: a review and recommendations for further research. Permafrost Periglacial Processes, 6: 27-45.

Bockheim, J.G., Ugolini, F.C. (1990) A review of pedogenic zonation in well-drained soils of the southern circumpolar region. Quat. Res., 34: 47-66.

Bockheim, J.G., Ackert, R.A. (In press 2007) Implications of soils on mid-Miocene-aged drifts in the McMurdo Dry Valleys for ice sheet history and paleoclimate reconstruction. Geomorphology.

Bockheim, J.G., McLeod, M. (In press 2006) Soil formation in Wright Valley, Antarctica since the Late Neogene. Geoderma.

Bromley, G.R.M., Hall, B.L., Stone, J.O., Conway, H., and Todd, C.E., 2010.  Late Cenozoic deposits at Reedy Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains: Implications for former thickness of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, v.29, p.384-398.

Campbell, I.B., Claridge, G.G.C. (1987) Antractica: Soils, weathering processes and environment. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 368 pp.

Claridge, G.G.C., Campbell, I.B. (1968) Soils of the Shackleton Glacier region, Queen Maud Range, Antarctica. N.Z. J. Science, 11:171-218.

Conway, H., Hall, B., Denton, G., Gades, A., Waddington. (1999) Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science, 286: 280-283.

Denton, G.H., Marchant, D.R. (2000) The geologic basis for a reconstruction of a grounded ice sheet in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, at the last glacial maximum. Geografiska Annaler, 82A: 167-212.

Denton, G., Sugden, D., Marchant, D., Hall, B., Wilch, T. (1993) East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to Pliocene climatic changes from a Dry Valleys perspective. Geografiska Annaler, v. 75A: 155-203.

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