ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



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Fig. 10. — Generalized diagram illustrating the sa- 

 lient FEATURES IN THE "bUILd" OF ANTARCTICA AND 

 ADJACENT CONTINENTS. 



Gould's discovery (Dec, 1929) of the extension of the Ross 

 Ice Shelf is indicated. 



by high plateaus and by great fault scarps, with only 

 a fringe of earth ripples in one corner (Morocco, etc.), 

 so also Antarctica is preeminently a great plateau 



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