COjNTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. PHYSIOGRAPHIC INTRODUCTION 1 



II. DYNAMIC GEOLOGY: PART I. METEOROLOGY, WITH SPECIAL 



REFERENCE TO TEMPERATURE, SNOWFALL, AND ABLATION 14 



HI. DYNAMIC GEOLOGY: PART II. GLACIOLOGY 45 



IV. GLACIOLOGY iconfinued)— CAPE IRIZAR TO DRY VALLEY 64 



V. GLACIOLOGY (con^Mm-rf)— THE FERRAR GLACIER AND ROSS ISLAND 86 



VI. GLACIOLOGY (w?j<Mmfrf)— THE ROSS BARRIER 123 



VII. LAKES AND LAKE ICE OF CAPE ROYDS AND CAPE BARNL 147 



VIH. ICEBERGS 170 



IX. ICE-FOOT AND SEA ICE 175 



X. WEATHERING— DENUDATION— EROSION 103 



XI. VULCANISM 208 



XII. ORGANIC LIFE 229 



XIH. STR ATIGR A PHICAL GEOLOGY: PRE-CAMBRIAN, CAMBRIAN, AND 



DEVONIAN DEPOSITS 232 



XIV. ERUPTIVE ROCKS (PROBABLY POST-CAMBRIAN AND PRE-GOND- 



WANA) AND THE BEACON SANDSTONE FORMATION 244 



XV. CAINOZOIC LAVAS AND TUFFS OF EREBUS 257 



XVL OLDER MORAINES AND ERRATICS 262 



XVII. UPTHRUST MARINE MUDS AND RAISED BEACHES 266 



XVIII. RECENT DEPOSITS, MIRABILITE AND ALGOUS PEAT 277 



XIX. CAINOZOIC PALyEOGEOGRAPHY : 



PART I. ANCIENT EXTENSION OF THE GLACIERS 285 

 PART II. PROBABLE PRE-GLACIAL HISTORY OF SOUTH 



VICTORIA LAND IN CAINOZOIC TIMES 21)1 

 XX. NOTES OF THE GENERAL GEOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF ANT- 

 ARCTICA TO OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD 297 



