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    The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some...
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    TAM-The Transantarctic Mountains Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieve 4/7/02. Encyclopædia Britannica.Article-Online|Transantarctic Mountains...
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    coal is known to exist across many parts of the Transantarctic Mountains. The Prince Charles Mountains contain deposits of iron ore. There are oil and...
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    the longest mountain ranges (at 3500 kilometers) formed by rift flank uplift and associated continental rifting. The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) separate...
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    laid down during the Devonian and Jurassic periods to form the Transantarctic Mountains. In coastal areas such as Shackleton Range and Victoria Land some...
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    Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from East Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains and is covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It lies between...
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    from Neogene strata from the Meyer Desert Formation biota in the Transantarctic Mountains, which appear to have inhabited a periglacial environment. The...
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  • summer on Mount Kirkpatrick in the Beardmore Glacier region of the Transantarctic Mountains. The discovery was made by Hammer, a professor at Augustana College...
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    Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. The Scott Glacier is one of a series of major glaciers flowing across the Transantarctic Mountains, with the...
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    the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains. This geographical area serves as a collection point for meteorites...
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    of it is as yet unexcavated. Part of the Victoria Group of the Transantarctic Mountains, it lies below the Prebble Formation and above the Falla Formation...
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    Pensacola Mountains Salvesen Range, South Georgia Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island Transantarctic Mountains Queen Maud Mountains Bush Mountains Commonwealth...
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    (1989), "Extraterrestrial spherules in glacial sediment from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Structure, mineralogy and chemical composition", Geochimica...
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    (France) Antarctica (Antarctic Treaty System) East Antarctica Transantarctic Mountains West Antarctica Antarctic Peninsula Crozet Islands (France) Heard...
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  • Horlick Mountains (85°23′S 121°00′W / 85.383°S 121.000°W / -85.383; -121.000 (Horlick Mountains)) are a mountain group in the Transantarctic Mountains of...
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    Russian Arctic British Antarctica Survey Antarctica: West of the Transantarctic Mountains World Map of Tundra Tundra at Wikipedia's sister projects: Definitions...
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  • Thoroughbred racemare from New Zealand Horlick Mountains, a mountain range in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, lying eastward of Reedy Glacier...
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    South Pole Traverse (category Transantarctic Mountains)
    The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse, is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and...
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    the Rift lies below sea level. To the south it is flanked by the Transantarctic Mountains and to the north by the volcanic province of Marie Byrd Land. Volcanic...
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  • Antarctica, leading an expedition to pioneer a route through the Transantarctic Mountains, reaching a point 98 miles (157 km) from the South Pole. The expedition...
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    miles (520 km; 320 mi) in a northeast–southwest direction in the Transantarctic Mountains System, Queen Elizabeth Land region of Antarctica. They comprise...
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    Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains. It is generally greater in elevation than West Antarctica, and includes the Gamburtsev Mountain Range in the center...
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    "Anatomically preserved Glossopteris foliage from the central Transantarctic Mountains". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 66 (1–2): 105–127. doi:10...
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    West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains that lies in the Western Hemisphere. It is classified as a marine-based...
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    The discovery of Lystrosaurus fossils at Coalsack Bluff in the Transantarctic Mountains by [2] Edwin H. Colbert and his team in 1969–70 helped support...
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    major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the...
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  • of Cenozoic volcanic rocks in the western Ross Sea and central Transantarctic Mountains areas of Antarctica. It is one of the largest provinces of alkaline...
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    around 2 kilometres (1.2 mi), Even the Transantarctic Mountains are largely covered by ice, with only some mountain summits and the McMurdo Dry Valleys being...
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    providing a route for tractors to climb from the ice shelf through the Transantarctic Mountains to the polar plateau. The Leverett Glacier was discovered in December...
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    is separated from West Antarctica by the 100–300 kilometer wide Transantarctic Mountains, which span nearly 3,500 kilometers from the Weddell Sea to the...
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