Prediction of meteorite concentration areas in Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica

Author

Wang, Fang ; Cheng, Xiao ; Liu, Yan ; Hui, Fengming ; Chen, Tingbiao ; Ye, Yufang ; Wang, Zhixin ; Zhao, Chen

Author_Institution

Coll. of Global Change & Earth Syst. Sci., Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The Grove Mountains (Grove) in East Antarctica is recognized as the important meteorite concentration area and has the notable meteorite concentration mechanism, being the basis to assess the possible concentration region in Prince Charles Mountains (PCMs) of the Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica. The meteorite concentration mechanism requires understanding of the glacial flow, the local climate, and other factors that may be entirely unique to the individual sites, while subsets of these data may mislead the conclusion. This study reveals the analysis of the meteorite concentration mechanism in Grove, and the prediction in PCMs. The possible concentration area in PCMs is about 2,432 km² mainly located in the blue ice and the moraine field.

Keywords

erosion; geophysical techniques; glaciology; meteorites; East Antarctica; Grove Mountains; Lambert Glacier; Prince Charles Mountains; glacial flow; local climate; meteorite concentration areas; weathering processes; Antarctica; Ice surface; Phase change materials; Snow; Surface topography; Grove; PCMs; glacial movement; meteorite concentration mechanism; weathering processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2161-024X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-849-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GeoInformatics.2011.5980765

Filename

5980765