Sir Robin Irvine Scholarship (shared 1997-1999)

Stephen Read
Department of Geology, University of Otago, PhD

New U-Pb isotopic age determinations from plutons in the Ross Orogen, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

This study aims to further our knowledge of the Ross Orogen in the region between the Koettlitz and Skelton glaciers in southern Victoria Land. An important aspect of this study is to obtain a number of radiometric age determinations and isotope analyses.

Publications

Read, S.E. Cooper, A.F. Walker, N. W. Geochemistry and U-Pb geochronology of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province, Royal Society Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 35: 143-151, 2002.