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Of Penguins and Polar Bears Shapero Rare Books 93
OF PENGUINS AND POLAR BEARS Shapero Rare Books 93 OF PENGUINS AND POLAR BEARS EXPLORATION AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 32 Saint George Street London W1S 2EA +44 20 7493 0876 [email protected] shapero.com CONTENTS Antarctica 03 The Arctic 43 2 Shapero Rare Books ANTARCTIca Shapero Rare Books 3 1. AMUNDSEN, ROALD. The South Pole. An account of “Amundsen’s legendary dash to the Pole, which he reached the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910-1912. before Scott’s ill-fated expedition by over a month. His John Murray, London, 1912. success over Scott was due to his highly disciplined dogsled teams, more accomplished skiers, a shorter distance to the A CORNERSTONE OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION; THE ACCOUNT OF THE Pole, better clothing and equipment, well planned supply FIRST EXPEDITION TO REACH THE SOUTH POLE. depots on the way, fortunate weather, and a modicum of luck”(Books on Ice). A handsomely produced book containing ten full-page photographic images not found in the Norwegian original, First English edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxxv, [i], 392; x, 449pp., 3 folding maps, folding plan, 138 photographic illustrations on 103 plates, original maroon and all full-page images being reproduced to a higher cloth gilt, vignettes to upper covers, top edges gilt, others uncut, usual fading standard. to spine flags, an excellent fresh example. Taurus 71; Rosove 9.A1; Books on Ice 7.1. £3,750 [ref: 96754] 4 Shapero Rare Books 2. [BELGIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION]. Grande 3. BELLINGSHAUSEN, FABIAN G. VON. The Voyage of Fete Venitienne au Parc de 6 a 11 heurs du soir en faveur de Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821. -
Matthew Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955) “First African-American Artic Explorer”
The Clerk’s Black History Series Debra DeBerry Clerk of Superior Court DeKalb County Matthew Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955) “First African-American Artic Explorer” Matthew Henson was born August 8, 1866, in Nanjemoy, Maryland, to freeborn black sharecropper parents. In 1867, his parents and three sisters moved to Georgetown to escape racial violence where his mother died when Matthew was seven years old. When Matthew’s father died, he went to live with his uncle in Washington, D.C. When Matthew was ten years old, he attended a ceremony honoring Abraham Lincoln where he heard social reformer and abolitionist, Frederick Douglas speak. Shortly thereafter, he left home, determined to find his own way. After working briefly in a restaurant, he walked all the way to Baltimore, Maryland. At the age of 12, Matthew went to sea as a cabin boy on the merchant ship Katie Hines, traveling to Asia, Africa and Europe under the watchful eye of the ship’s skipper, Captain Childs. After Captain Childs died, Matthew moved back to Washington, D.C. When Matthew was 21 years old, he met Commander Robert E. Peary, an explorer and officer in the U.S. Navy Corps of Civil Engineers. Impressed with Matthew’s seafaring experience, Commander Peary recruited him for an upcoming voyage to Nicaragua. After returning from Nicaragua, Matthew found work in Philadelphia, and in April 1891 he met and married Eva Flint. But shortly thereafter, the two explorers were off again for an expedition to Green- land and the marriage to Eva ended. Matthew and the Commander would cover thousands of miles across the sea and the world, exploring and making multiple attempts to reach the North Pole. -
SUMMARIES of TECHNICAL REPORTS, VOLUME X Prepared by Participants in NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION PROGRAM June 1980
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Office of Earthquake Studies SUMMARIES OF TECHNICAL REPORTS, VOLUME X Prepared by participants in NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION PROGRAM June 1980 OPEN-FILE REPORT 80-842 This report is preliminary and has not been edited or reviewed for conformity with Geological Survey standards and nomenclature Menlo Park, California 1980 CONTENTS Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program I. Earthquake Hazards Studies (H) Page Objective 1, Establish an accurate and reliable national earthquake data base.——————————————————• Objective 2. Delineate and evaluate earthquake hazards and risk in the United States on a national scale. ——————————————————————————• 66 Objective 3. Delineate and evaluate earthquake hazards and risk in earthquake-prone urbanized regions in the western United States.——————————————• 77 Objective 4, Delineate and evaluate earthquake hazards and risk in earthquake-prone regions in the eastern United States. ————— —————————— — ———— 139 Objective 5. Improve capability to evaluate earthquake potential and predict character of surface faulting.———————————————— ————————— 171 Objective 6. Improve capability to predict character of damaging ground shaking.———————————————— 245 Objective 7. Improve capability to predict incidence, nature and extent of earthquake-induced ground failures, particularly landsliding and liquefaction.--——— 293 Objective 8. Improve capability to predict earthquake losses.— 310 II. Earthquake Prediction Studies (P) Objective 1. Observe at a reconnaissance -
Pamphlet to Accompany Scientific Investigations Map 3131
Bedrock Geologic Map of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, and Accompanying Conodont Data By Alison B. Till, Julie A. Dumoulin, Melanie B. Werdon, and Heather A. Bleick Pamphlet to accompany Scientific Investigations Map 3131 View of Salmon Lake and the eastern Kigluaik Mountains, central Seward Peninsula 2011 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................1 Sources of data ....................................................................................................................................1 Components of the map and accompanying materials .................................................................1 Geologic Summary ........................................................................................................................................1 Major geologic components ..............................................................................................................1 York terrane ..................................................................................................................................2 Grantley Harbor Fault Zone and contact between the York terrane and the Nome Complex ..........................................................................................................................3 Nome Complex ............................................................................................................................3 -
Bathymetry and Deep-Water Exchange Across the Central Lomonosov Ridge at 88–891N
ARTICLE IN PRESS Deep-Sea Research I 54 (2007) 1197–1208 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsri Bathymetry and deep-water exchange across the central Lomonosov Ridge at 88–891N Go¨ran Bjo¨rka,Ã, Martin Jakobssonb, Bert Rudelsc, James H. Swiftd, Leif Andersone, Dennis A. Darbyf, Jan Backmanb, Bernard Coakleyg, Peter Winsorh, Leonid Polyaki, Margo Edwardsj aGo¨teborg University, Earth Sciences Center, Box 460, SE-405 30 Go¨teborg, Sweden bDepartment of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden cFinnish Institute for Marine Research, Helsinki, Finland dScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA eDepartment of Chemistry, Go¨teborg University, Go¨teborg, Sweden fDepartment of Ocean, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA gDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA hPhysical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA iByrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA jHawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, HI, USA Received 23 October 2006; received in revised form 9 May 2007; accepted 18 May 2007 Available online 2 June 2007 Abstract Seafloor mapping of the central Lomonosov Ridge using a multibeam echo-sounder during the Beringia/Healy–Oden Trans-Arctic Expedition (HOTRAX) 2005 shows that a channel across the ridge has a substantially shallower sill depth than the 2500 m indicated in present bathymetric maps. The multibeam survey along the ridge crest shows a maximum sill depth of about 1870 m. A previously hypothesized exchange of deep water from the Amundsen Basin to the Makarov Basin in this area is not confirmed. -
Hot Rocks from Cold Places: a Field, Geochemical and Geochronological Study from the High Arctic Large Igneous P Rovince (HALIP) at Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
! !"#$%"&'($)*"+$,"-.$/-0&1(2$3$451-.6$71"&81+5&0-$09.$ 71"&8*"9"-":5&0-$;#<.=$)*"+$#81$!5:8$3*&$>0*:1$ ?:91"<($/*"@59&1$A!3>?/B$0#$3C1-$!15D1*:$?(-09.6$ E<90@<#$ $ $ by Cole Girard Kingsbury A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Earth Sciences Ottawa – Carleton Geoscience Centre and Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario © 2016 Cole Girard Kingsbury ! ! !"#$%&'$() ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) The geology of the Arctic is greatly influenced by a period of widespread Cretaceous magmatic activity, the High Arctic Large Igneous Province (HALIP). Two major tholeiitic magmatic pulses characterize HALIP: an initial 120 -130 Ma pulse that affected Arctic Canada and formally adjacent regions of Svalbard (Norway) and Franz Josef Land (Russia). In Canada, this pulse fed lava flows of the Isachsen Formation. A second 90-100 Ma pulse that apparently only affected the Canadian side of the Arctic, fed flood basalts of the Strand Fiord Formation. The goal of this thesis is to improve understanding of Arctic magmatism of the enigmatic HALIP through field, remote sensing, geochemical and geochronology investigations of mafic intrusive rocks collected in the South Fiord area of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, and comparison with mafic lavas of the Isachsen and Strand Fiord Formations collected from other localities on the Island. Ground-based and remote sensing observations of the South Fiord area reveal a complex network of mafic sills and mainly SSE-trending dykes. Two new U-Pb baddeleyite ages of 95.18 ± 0.35 Ma and 95.56 ± 0.24 Ma from South Fiord intrusions along with geochemical similarity confirm these intrusions (including the SSE-trending dykes) are feeders for the Strand Fiord Formation lavas. -
Bering Sea NWFC/NMFS
VOLUME 1. MARINE MAMMALS, MARINE BIRDS VOLUME 2, FISH, PLANKTON, BENTHOS, LITTORAL VOLUME 3, EFFECTS, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY, PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY VOLUME 4. GEOLOGY, ICE, DATA MANAGEMENT Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf July - Sept 1976 quarterly reports from Principal Investigators participatingin a multi-year program of environmental assessment related to petroleum development on the Alaskan Continental Shelf. The program is directed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Land Management. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES Boulder, Colorado November 1976 VOLUME 1 CONTENTS MARINE MAMMALS vii MARINE BIRDS 167 iii MARINE MAMMALS v MARINE MAMMALS Research Unit Proposer Title Page 34 G. Carleton Ray Analysis of Marine Mammal Remote 1 Douglas Wartzok Sensing Data Johns Hopkins U. 67 Clifford H. Fiscus Baseline Characterization of Marine 3 Howard W. Braham Mammals in the Bering Sea NWFC/NMFS 68 Clifford H. Fiscus Abundance and Seasonal Distribution 30 Howard W. Braham of Marine Mammals in the Gulf of Roger W. Mercer Alaska NWFC/NMFS 69 Clifford H. Fiscus Distribution and Abundance of Bowhead 33 Howard W. Braham and Belukha Whales in the Bering Sea NWFC/NMFS 70 Clifford H. Fiscus Distribution and Abundance of Bow- 36 Howard W. Braham et al head and Belukha Whales in the NWFC/NMFS Beaufort and Chukchi Seas 194 Francis H. Fay Morbidity and Mortality of Marine 43 IMS/U. of Alaska Mammals 229 Kenneth W. Pitcher Biology of the Harbor Seal, Phoca 48 Donald Calkins vitulina richardi, in the Gulf of ADF&G Alaska 230 John J. Burns The Natural History and Ecology of 55 Thomas J. -
Planning a Mission to the Lunar South Pole
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: (Diviner) Audience Planning a Mission to Grades 9-10 the Lunar South Pole Time Recommended 1-2 hours AAAS STANDARDS Learning Objectives: • 12A/H1: Exhibit traits such as curiosity, honesty, open- • Learn about recent discoveries in lunar science. ness, and skepticism when making investigations, and value those traits in others. • Deduce information from various sources of scientific data. • 12E/H4: Insist that the key assumptions and reasoning in • Use critical thinking to compare and evaluate different datasets. any argument—whether one’s own or that of others—be • Participate in team-based decision-making. made explicit; analyze the arguments for flawed assump- • Use logical arguments and supporting information to justify decisions. tions, flawed reasoning, or both; and be critical of the claims if any flaws in the argument are found. • 4A/H3: Increasingly sophisticated technology is used Preparation: to learn about the universe. Visual, radio, and X-ray See teacher procedure for any details. telescopes collect information from across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves; computers handle Background Information: data and complicated computations to interpret them; space probes send back data and materials from The Moon’s surface thermal environment is among the most extreme of any remote parts of the solar system; and accelerators give planetary body in the solar system. With no atmosphere to store heat or filter subatomic particles energies that simulate conditions in the Sun’s radiation, midday temperatures on the Moon’s surface can reach the stars and in the early history of the universe before 127°C (hotter than boiling water) whereas at night they can fall as low as stars formed. -
Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol
J. Blunden, D. S. Arndt, and M. O. Baringer, Eds. Associate Eds. K. M. Willett, A. J. Dolman, B. D. Hall, P. W. Thorne, J. M. Levy, H. J. Diamond, J. Richter-Menge, M. Jeffries, R. L. Fogt, L. A. Vincent, and J. M. Renwick Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 92, No. 6, June 2011 www.whoi.edu/beaufort) show that the pack ice in the e. Land central Canada Basin is changing from a multiyear to 1) veGetation—D. A. Walker, U. S. Bhatt, T. V. Callaghan, J. a seasonal ice cover. C. Comiso, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, M. Gill, W. A. Gould, G. H. R. Henry, G. J. Jia, S. V. Kokelj, T. C. Lantz, S. F Oberbauer, 3) Sea ice thickness J. E. Pinzon, M. K. Raynolds, G. R. Shaver, C. J. Tucker, C. E. Combined estimates of ice thickness from sub- Tweedie, and P. J. Webber marine and satellite-based instruments provide the Circumpolar changes to tundra vegetation are longest record of sea ice thickness observation, begin- monitored from space using the Normalized Differ- ning in 1980 (Kwok et al. 2009; Ro throck et al. 2008). ence Vegetation Index (NDVI), an index of vegetation These data indicate that over a region covering ~38% greenness. In tundra regions, the annual maximum of the Arctic Ocean there is a long-term trend of sea NDVI (MaxNDVI) is usually achieved in early Au- ice thinning over the last three decades. gust and is correlated with above-ground biomass, Haas et al. -
Geographical Report of the Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1917
5.083 (701) Article VL-GEOGRAPHICAL REPORT OF THE CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION, 1913-1917. BY DONALD B. MACMILLAN CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION......................................................... 379 SLEDGE TRIP ON NORTH POLAR SEA, SPRING, 1914 .......................... 384 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS-ON NORTH POLAR SEA, 1914 ................ 401 ETAH TO POLAR SEA AND RETURN-MARCH AVERAGES .............. ........ 404 WINTER AND SPRING WORK, 1915-1916 ............. ......................... 404 SPRING WORK OF 1917 .................................... ............ 418 GENERAL SUMMARY ....................................................... 434 INTRODUCTJON The following report embraces the geographical work accomplished by the Crocker Land Expedition during -four years (Summer, 19.13, to Summer, 1917) spent at Etah, NortJaGreenland. Mr. Ekblaw, who was placed in charge of the 1916 expeditin, will present a separate report. The results of the expedition, naturally, depended upon the loca tion of its headquarters. The enforced selection of Etah, North Green- land, seriously handicapped the work of the expedition from start to finish, while the. expenses of the party were more than doubled. The. first accident, the grounding of the Diana upon the coast of Labrador, was a regrettable adventure. The consequent delay, due to unloading, chartering, and reloading, resulted in such a late arrival at Etah that our plans were disarranged. It curtailed in many ways the eageimess of the men to reach their objective point at the head of Flagler Bay, te proposed site of the winter quarters. The leader and his party being but passengers upon a chartered ship was another handicap, since the captain emphatically declared that he would not steam across Smith Sound. There was but one decision to be made, namely: to land upon the North Greenland shore within striking distance of Cape Sabine. -
Age and Origin of the Lomonosov Ridge: a Key Continental Fragment in Arctic Ocean Reconstructions
Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-10207-1, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015 © Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Age and origin of the Lomonosov Ridge: a key continental fragment in Arctic Ocean reconstructions Christian Marcussen, Christian Knudsen, John R. Hopper, Thomas Funck, Jon R. Ineson, and Morten Bjerager Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark The Lomonosov Ridge is a trans-oceanic seafloor high that separates the Eurasia Basin from the Amerasia Basin. It extends for a distance of almost 1800 km across the Arctic Ocean from the Lincoln Shelf off Greenland and Canada to the East Siberian Shelf. Although known from the ACEX drilling expedition to be a sliver of continental crust, it remains an enigmatic feature and many details of its history are unknown. In the summer of 2012, GEUS recovered dredge samples from two locations along the flank of the ridge facing the Eurasian Basin. The samples comprise 100 kg and 200 kg of rocks and rock pieces ranging in size from 0.1 to 80 kg which were recovered from two different scarps associated with rotated continental fault blocks. A significant quantity of rocks with identical structures and isotopic fingerprints show that they formed at the same time and from the same geological material. This combined with the broken and angular nature of many of the pieces recovered indicates that the material is from in situ bedrock and does not represent dropstones brought to the area by drifting ice. Two main sedimentary rock types were recovered - an arkosic metasedimentary rock, and a quartz rich non-metamorphic sandstone. -
Bathymetric Mapping of the North Polar Seas
BATHYMETRIC MAPPING OF THE NORTH POLAR SEAS Report of a Workshop at the Hawaii Mapping Research Group, University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI, USA, October 30-31, 2002 Ron Macnab Geological Survey of Canada (Retired) and Margo Edwards Hawaii Mapping Research Group SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 1 BATHYMETRIC MAPPING OF THE NORTH POLAR SEAS Report of a Workshop at the Hawaii Mapping Research Group, University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI, USA, October 30-31, 2002 Ron Macnab Geological Survey of Canada (Retired) and Margo Edwards Hawaii Mapping Research Group Cover Figure. Oblique view of new eruption site on the Gakkel Ridge, observed with Seafloor Characterization and Mapping Pods (SCAMP) during the 1999 SCICEX mission. Sidescan observations are draped on a SCAMP-derived terrain model, with depths indicated by color-coded contour lines. Red dots are epicenters of earthquakes detected on the Ridge in 1999. (Data processing and visualization performed by Margo Edwards and Paul Johnson of the Hawaii Mapping Research Group.) This workshop was partially supported through Grant Number N00014-2-02-1-1120, awarded by the United States Office of Naval Research International Field Office. Partial funding was also provided by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the US Polar Research Board, and the University of Hawaii. 2 Table of Contents 1. Introduction...............................................................................................................................5 Ron Macnab (GSC Retired) and Margo Edwards (HMRG) 2. A prototype 1:6 Million map....................................................................................................5 Martin Jakobsson, CCOM/JHC, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH, USA 3. Russian Arctic shelf data..........................................................................................................7 Volodja Glebovsky, VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia 4.