Author: QUAM, Louis O. (Editor)
Title: Research in the Antarctic.
Description: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1971. Hardcover. Good condition in dustjacket. Fold out b/w map showing mean annual snow balance in Antarctica. Contains tables and graphs. Includes papers on Dynamics of Trophic Relationa in the Southern Ocean; Perspectives of benthic Ecology in Antarctica; Antarctic Soil Microbial and Ecological Investigations; Ecology of Land Plants in Antarctica; Ecodynamics of Lichen Communities in Antarctica; Behavior of Antarctic Penguins and Seals; Glacial Geology of the Wright Valley, Mcmurdo Sound; Snow Accumulation in Antarctica; Some Aspects of the Climate of Interior Antarctica; Antarctic Atmosphere as a Test Tube for Meteorological Theories; Very Low Frequency Magnetospheric Research in the Antarctic; Particle Precipitation in the Antarctic Ionosphere; Interhemispheric phase shift for PC-1 Micropulsations at Kotzebue and Macquarie Island; Cosmic Ray Intensity Variations; How Variable is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?; The Formation of Antarctic Bottom Water; Invertebrate Fossil Record and Continental Drift; The Position of Antarctica in Gondwanaland etc. 768pp. ISBN 0871680939.

Keywords: Antarctic research snow southern oceans penguins seals biomedicine benthic ecology glaciors ice deep-drilling climate atmosphere meteorology