FRONTIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ANTARCTIC GEOSCIENCE  * Pontignano (Siena), Italy - 29-31 August 2004

Presentations

Flavio Accaino Pore pressure regime and gas-phase distribution - the South Shetland Margin (Antarctica) case study
Sridar Anandakrishnan Crustal structure of the West Antarctic rift system and Marie Byrd Land hotspot
Egidio Armadillo Recent aeromagnetic and deep electromagnetic surveys in northern Victoria Land
John Behrendt Future Aerogeophysical Surveys are Needed over the West Antarctic Rift System in the Area covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and the Ross Ice Shelf
Giuliano Brancolini Sedimentary record and glacial history of the Antarctic continental margin
Andrea Caburlotto Quaternary climatic changes recorded by sediemtnary processes on the Wilkes Land Continental Margin
Silvia Ceramicola 1 - 2D flexural backstripping of the glaciated NW European margin (EC STRATAGEM Project)
2 - PATHWAYS: Palaeoceanographic Pathways in the North Atlantic-Arctic Ocean (International Polar Year, idea 218)
J. Alistair Crame Geosciences research in the British Antarctic Survey, 2005-2010
Ian Dalziel Tracing the West Antarctic Rift System
Detlef Damaske Antarctic research of the Federal Institut for Geosciences adn Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
Laura De Santis Ice Sheet load, erosion, and deposition effects on sedimentation: geophysical and geological integrated approach
Gianfranco Di Vincenzo Dating brittle faulting: exploiting the complementarity of the step-heating and in situ 40Ar-39Ar laser techniques to disentangle the complexity of Cenozoic pseudotachylytes from the West Antarctic Rift System
Federica Donda The East Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution through the Cenozoic: a record from the East Antarctic continental rise
Graeme Eagles First steps towards palaeobathymetric reconstruction of the South Pacific Ocean
Francesco Fasano
3-D petrography of cores of rocks and glacigenic sediments through an innovative tomographic system for paleoclimatic investigations
Laura Federico The paleo-pacific margin of Gondwana and the Ross Orogeny: a northern Victoria Land perspective
Fausto Ferraccioli Recent airborne geophysics exploration projects of the British Antarctic Survey
Michael Flowerdew Applying hafnium isotopes of zircon to Antarctic problems
Carmen Gaina The evolution of circum-Antarctic oceanic crust since cretaceous
Rudolf Greku An internal structure of the Antarctica continent and adjacent regions with the gravimetric tomography technique
Michael Hannah Marine palynomorphs: studies from the Antarctic margin
David Harwood ANDRILL Program stratigraphic drilling project in southern McMurdo Sound (SMS): An overview of site surveys and scientific objectives
Javier Hernandez-Molina Spanish marine geological investigations of the Antarctic continental margins and basins: main stratigraphical results related to environmental and paleoceanographical changes
Valery Korepanov 1 - Study of terragenic influence on ionosphere realized at the Ukrainian Antarctic station
2 - Study of crustal structure of the region near Ukrainian Antarctic station by electromagnetic methods
Richard D. Law The role of pure shear deformation in extrusion of high grade rocks towards the earth's surface: Strain histories and vorticity of flow in the Greater Himalayan Slab
Lawrence Lawver Onshore - offshore East Antarctica
Kathy Licht Petrographic and isotopic composition of Ross Embayment till

Samuel Mukasa 1 - West Antarctica microplates and their crustal evolution
2 - A case for drilling the Dufek layered mafic intrusion, Antarctica based on available Nd, Sr and Pb isotopic and trace element data
Rosaria Palmeri Preliminary stable isotope investigation of the ultra-high-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Lanterman Range, NVL, Antarctica
Carlos Paredes Stochastic three dimensional conditioned distribution of faults potentially responsible for the seismo-volcanic activity in Deception Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica): VISHNU Project - Spain
Piero Pertusati Early Jurassic fossiliferous black shales in the Exposure Hill Formation, Ferrar Group of northern Victoria Land
Diego Perugini Vegetation Island mafic-felsic associations (Terra Nova Intrusive Complex, Antarctica): an example of replenishment of a felsic magma chamber by continuous influx of mafic magma revealed by field evidence and fluid-mechanics experiments
Stefano Picotti A seismic survey test on the eastern Antarctic ice sheet for subglacial lake exploration
Daniel Praeg 1 - Episodic Cenozoic tectonism and the shaping of the NW European "passive" continental margin
2 - Glacial Meltwater and the Sedimentary Architecture of High-Latitude Continental Margins (GLAMAR: International Polar Year, idea 242)
Michele Rebesco Western margin of the Antarctic Peninsula: An opportunity for seafloor bathymetric mapping and the new frontier of fluide escapes and mud volanoes
Cristina Ribecai 1 - On the age of the Beacon Supergroup at the Section Peak locality (northern Victoria Land, Antarctic): a review
2 - Jurassic miospores from Carapace Nunatak, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Sergio Rocchi Tight link between Cenozoic magmatism and local-regional fault activity in the West Antarctic Rift
Francesco Salvini Architecture, kinematics, and timing of intraplate strike-slip tectnoics at the northeastern edge of Antarctica
Chiara Sauli Revision of the maps of the main interpreted seismic unconformities in the Victoria Land Basin
Reed Scherer Direct geological, glaciological, biologican and oceanographic observations at ice sheet grounding lines
Lindsey Schoenbohm An erosion history from depth-dependent of cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, 3He and 21Ne data in sandstone bedrock, Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Christine Siddoway Modular conversion method for regional comparison of structural data across the Ross Sea (e.d. TAM at ˜160°E longitude vs. MBL at 145°W)
Martin Siegert ACE: Antarctic Climate Evolution
Michael Studinger Science Opportunities for Antarctic Geology and Geophysics during the International Polar Year 2007/08
Ignazio Ezio
Tabacco Detection and characterization of subglacial lakes in Vincennes and Aurora Basins (East Antarctica)
Franco Talarico A major crustal discontinuity in George V Land: new petrological and 40Ar-39Ar data and new research opportunities
Jörn Thiede Aurora Borealis - A novel European research icebreaker
Umberta Tinivella Estimate of the potentiality of gas hydrate and free gas reservoir by integrated seismic analyses
Rudolph Trouw The Brazilian participation in Antarctic Geosciences reasearch
Alan P.M. Vaughan Multiphase history of the mid-Cretaceous Palmer Land event in the southern Antarctic Peninsula: implications for terrane boundaries and kinematic evolution
Lothar Viereck-Götte Geodynamics of the West Antarctic Rift System (WARS) in remote Ellsworh Land and its implications fro the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (IPY proposal 249)
Nigel Wardell A web-based interactive Antarctic seismic database
Terry Wilson Overview of U.S. research activities in Antarctica
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The international workshop received support from the Università di Siena, the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, and National Science Foundation (USA, award NSF-OPP-043543).  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the Antarctic geoscience community and workshop organizers, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or other sponsors.