Research Catalog

Title

Research in the Antarctic; a symposium presented at the Dallas meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December, 1968. Louis O. Quam, editor. Horace D. Porter, associate editor.

Author

Antarctic Research Symposium (1968 : Dallas, Tex.)

Publication

Washington, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1971.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Quam, Louis Otto, 1906-2001
• Porter, Horace D.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• United States Antarctic Research Program.

Description

xv, 768 pages illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Covers biology, glaciology cold poles and heat balances, conjugate phenomena, ocean dynamics, and Gondwanaland.

Series Statement

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Publication no. 93

Uniform Title

Publication (American Association for the Advancement of Science) ; no. 93.

Subject

• Research
• Research
• research (function)
• Antarctica > Congresses
• Antarctic Regions
• Antarctica

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "The papers in this volume are primarily the results of research by the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP). It is an outgrowth from, but not a complete record of, the Antarctic Research Symposium held in Dallas, Texas, December, 1968, at the 135th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Introduction to research in the Antarctic. James Eights of the Antarctic (1798-1882) / Joel W. Hedgpeth. The history of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) / Laurence M. Gould. The Antarctic Treaty / T.O. Jones -- Biology. Introduction / George A. Llano. Dynamics of trophic relations in the Southern Ocean / Sayed Z. El-Sayed. Perspectives of benthic ecology in Antarctica / Joel W. Hedgpeth. Antarctic soil microbial and ecological investigations / Roy E. Cameron. Ecology of land plants in Antarctica / Emanuel D. Rudolph. Ecodynamics of lichen communities in Antarctica / T.P. Gannutz. Blood proteins and muscle enzymes of cold-adapted Antarctic fishes / Robert E. Feeney and David T. Osuga. Behavior of Antarctic penguins and seals / Dietland Müller-Schwarze. New directions in Antarctic biomedical research / Jay T. Shurley -- Glaciology. Introduction / A.P. Crary. Glacial geology of the Wright Valley, McMurdo Sound / Robert L. Nichols. Thickness of ice and isostatic adjustments of ice-rock interface / A.P. Crary. Deep drilling into polar ice sheets for continuous cores / C.C. Langway, Jr., A.J. Gow and B. Lyle Hansen. Snow accumulation in Antarctica / Colin Bull -- Cold poles and heat balances. Introduction / Morton J. Rubin. Some aspects of the climate of interior Antarctica / Paul C. Dalrymple and Thomas O. Frostman. Antarctic atmosphere as a test tube for meteorological theories / Heinz Lettau. On the interaction between Antarctica and middle latitudes / Harry van Loon -- Conjugate phenomena. Introduction / Ray R. Heer, Jr. Very low frequency magnetospheric research in the Antarctic / R.A. Helliwell. Aurora studies over Alaska and south of New Zealand / T. Neil Davis, Albert E. Belon and Neel W. Glass. Energetic radiation over Antarctica / James R. Barcus. Particle precipitation in the Antarctic ionosphere / George C. Reid. Interhemispheric phase shift for PC-1 micropulsations at Kotzebue and Macquarie Island / John O. Annexstad and Charles R. Wilson. Cosmic ray intensity variations / Martin A. Pomerantz -- Ocean dynamics. Introduction / Mort D. Turner. Recent physical oceanographic studies of Antarctic waters / Arnold L. Gordon. Antarctic deep water contribution to the world ocean / Bruce A. Warren. How variable is the Antarctic circumpolar current? / John L. Bowen and Henry Stommel. The formation of Antarctic bottom water / Robert B. Elder and James M. Seabrooke -- Gondwanaland. Introduction / Louis O. Quam. The evolution of the southern oceans / J.R. Heirtzler. Antarctic fossil vertebrates and Gondwanaland / Edwin H. Colbert. Invertebrate fossil record and continental drift / Paul Tasch. Evidence for Gondwanaland from a review of West Antarctic radiometric ages / Martin Halpern. The position of Antarctica in Gondwanaland / Lawrence A. Frakes and John C. Crowell.

ISBN

• 0871680939
• 9780871680938

LCCN

71147118

OCLC

• ocm00194755
• 194755
• SCSB-284750

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library