To the Universidad Nacional de La Plata PID N955,ANPCyT PICT 20170607,and CONICET PIP 0096 for partial support.
The worldwide record of Cretaceous Neornithes and Neornithine-like birds is both controversial and poorly understood.However,in recent years,the Antarctic continent has yielded a substantial number of Maastrichtian av...
supported by Programa Antartico Brasileiro-PROANTAR(CNPq#557347/2005-0;#407670/2013-0 and#442677/2018-9 to AWAK);the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnologico(CNPq#370345/2017-7 to RVS;CNPq 312360/2018-5 to TR;CNPq#311715/2017-6 to JMS and CNPq#420687/2016-5;#313461/2018-0 to AWAK);Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de AmparoaPesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro(FAPERJ#E-26/202.905/2018 to AWAK;FAPERJ E-26/200.110/2019 to SMS)for the funding of this research。
Antarctic corals are known from the Upper Cretaceous Santa Marta Formation(Santonian–early Campanian)and Gamma Member(late Campanian)of Snow Hill Island Formation(late Campanian–early Maastrichtian)but they have not...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 41676176 and 41830536);the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science (Grant no. OFSLRSS201926)
On 10 December 2017,a Chinese research vessel R/V Xuelong encountered an extensive area of landfast ice offshore Inexpressible Island(Antarctica)near the location where the fifth Chinese Antarctic research station is ...
CAH was invited to field by the Dirección Nacional del Antártico and the Instituto Antártico Argentino;Fuerza Aérea Argentina provided logistic support,and partial help was provided by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas and Universidad Nacional de La Plata(N838);CAH is particularly grateful to Oceanwide Expeditions,Vlissingen(NL)for financial support.JAC gratefully acknowledges U.S National Science Foundation Polar Programs support for field research support as well as descriptive work on Antarctic fossils(Grant nos.NSF OPP-1141820,OPP-0927341,OPP-0408308);the work of many stellar collaborators on these projects.
The fossil record of birds from Antarctica is concentrated in the James Ross Basin,located in north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula.Birds are here represented by an extensive Paleogene record of penguins(Sphenisciform...
The Eocene–Oligocene Southern Ocean is thought to have played a major role in cetacean evolution.Yet,fossils from its heart—Antarctica—are rare,and come almost exclusively from the Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta fo...
Funding for this study was provided by PICT 0607-2018 and UNLP 11N812
Antarctica has significant environmental,scientific,historic,and intrinsic values,all of which are worth protecting into the future.This continent has a discrete number of places of scientific interest that exhibit gr...
financially supported by China Geological Survey (Grant no. DD20160060);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 4153209, 41872135)
In order to understand the petrogenesis and tectonic setting of diorite and diabase units on Doumer Island, Antarctic Peninsula, this paper reports new laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry(LA-IC...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no.41530209);the Chinese Polar Environment Comprehensive Investigation and Assessment Programs (Grant nos.CHINARE2015-02-05,CHINARE2017-04-03);the Taishan Scholar Project (Grant no.TSPD20161007);the Fundamental Research Funds for National Public Research Institutes of China (Grant nos.2009T02,2014T01)
Sansom Island consists of two low nunataks in Sandefjord Bay, a marginal gulf of Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. These nunataks are composed of two kinds of undeformed biotite granites, and these granites have been dated ...
the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration of the State Oceanic Administration for project support;the United States Antarctic Program (USAP);Antarctic Support Contract and Italian Mario Zucchelli Station for logistical support. R. Murray and A. Mc Kenzie provided valuable assistance in the field;supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 41576183 and 41376124);National Science Foundation (Grant no. ANT 0739575)
The carbon isotopic composition of organic matter (δ^13Corg) was determined in two sediment cores (IIL1 and IIL9) recovered from Inexpressible Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica, and analyzed to identify the sources of...
support personnel on the RVIB Nathaniel B.Palmer during NPB0901;funded partially by both the Australian Antarctic Division,project 2944
The water column structure of the ice shelf cavity outflow from under Pine Island Glacier and its temporal variability were investigated using a hourly time series of yo-yo CTD and LADCP data collected over -24 h at t...