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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2001-02: VUWAE 46

2 Proposed Programme

2 Proposed Programme

To understand the processes by which ground ice is formed, a comparative set of samples is needed from a variety of ground surfaces. These surfaces must lie on a transect from low to high elevation and extend through a range of ages. In sampling and analyzing the soils and their underlying ice cemented sediments there were three aims: 1) To determine if a chemical and mineralogical relationship exists between the soils and ice cemented sediments. 2) To determine if there are differences in the chemistry and mineralogy of the soils and ice cemented sediments between the different areas. 3) To determine the relationship of relative soil age, chemistry and ice content to polygonal ground. Evaluation of analytical results may lead to shallow core drilling of certain sites in the future.