Abstract:
A high resolution survey was flown opportunistically by BAS at the end of the AGAP aerogeophysical campaign during the 2008-09 Antarctic field season with NSF support from McMurdo. The main purpose was to collect data on the ice shelf for a radar pre-site survey for a major planned international ANDRILL drilling campaign at Coulman High. Due to lack of appropriate funding levels from several countries this ANDRILL drilling project has been postponed (https://www.icdp-online.org/projects/world/antarctica/coulman-high/) but the site remains nevertheless a potentially interesting target for future geoscience studies. The Coulman High project aimed to explore the range of paleo-environments, ecosystems and tectonic events that affected the Ross Sea region as it transitioned from the warm, high-CO2 Greenhouse world typical of the Eocene into the lower-CO2 and highly variable Icehouse conditions of the Oligocene and early Miocene. The aeromagnetic data released here can be used together with more extensive pre-existing international datasets to help study rift-related magmatism, faulting and sedimentary basins in the region.
Keywords:
Aerogeophysics, Aeromagnetics, Antarctica
Ferraccioli, F., & Jordan, T. (2020). High resolution aeromagnetic line data in the Ross Sea Rift collected for the ANDRILL pre-site survey (2008-09 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/74df4192-7c80-4ffa-b890-4b344cfc1bef
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| Creation Date: | 2020-06-29 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | PDC BAS |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Fausto Ferraccioli |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Tom A Jordan |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Processing reference: Ferraccioli, F., Gambetta, M. & Bozzo, E. 1998. Microlevelling procedures applied to regional aeromagnetic data: an example from the Transantarctic Mountains (Antarctica), Geophysical Prospecting, 46, 177-196, DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.1998.00080.x |
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| Lineage: | The ANDRILL aeromagnetic dataset includes all channels from raw through to levelled and microlevelled products. This survey forms part of the ANDRILL-UK Coulman high project investigation. Information about this project can be found at http://www.andrill.org/static/CH_Science.html. Channel naming follows SCAR/ADMAP2 data release protocols. Key data processing steps are described below, and a definition of all channels is in the table. Note in the database split by line the sections are defined as follows L= main survey grid lines, T=main survey tie lines. Magnetic data channels and processing flow: MagR- Raw magnetic total field intensity data (nT). TCorr-Corrections applied for tip tank events. MagR_TCorr- MagR corrected for tip tank events. RefField- Geomagnetic reference field value for which the magnetic data has been compensated. IGRF model 2005 as implemented in Geosoft (nT). MagRT- Raw magnetic value adjusted for Tip tank events and geomagnetic reference field values. MagRT= MagR_TCorr- RefField. BCorr- Low pass filtered (60 minute) magnetic base station correction. MagBRT- calculated as MagBRT= MagRT- Bcorr. MagF- Final mag value before levelling. No additional corrections applied so MagF=MagBRT MagL- Statistically levelled mag data. MagML- Microlevelled magnetic data following technique of (Ferraccioli et al., 1998). Basic channel description: Line name Line Number Flight ID Sequential flight number x x projected meters* y y projected meters* Lon Longitude WGS 1984, Lat Latitude WGS 1984, Height_WGS1984 Aircraft altitude (meters) in WGS 1984, Date Date of flight in time format e.g. 2006/01/08 Time Time (UTC) of flight e.g. 23:52:42.0 *Projected coordinates (x and y) are in Lambert conic conformal with two standard parallels defined as follows: Latitude of false origin: -74.018118 Longitude of false origin: 179 Latitude of 1st standard parallel -72.66666666667 Latitude of 2nd standard parallel -75.33333333333 False easting 1444000 False northing 1123000 Positioning for the ANDRILL HRAM survey uses kinematic differential GPS. |
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| Start Date | 2009-01-16 |
| End Date | 2009-01-18 |
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| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -77.91385 |
| Northernmost | -77.34185 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | 170.60114 |
| Easternmost | 171.96926 |
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| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
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| Latitude Resolution | N/A |
| Longitude Resolution | N/A |
| Horizontal Resolution Range | 30 meters - < 100 meters |
| Vertical Resolution | N/A |
| Vertical Resolution Range | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution | N/A |
| Temporal Resolution Range | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | East of Ross Island |
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| Distribution Media | Online Internet (HTTP) |
| Distribution Size | 6MB |
| Distribution Format | ASCII |
| Fees | N/A |
| Data Storage: | This dataset constains 1 ASCII XYZ file: - ANDRILL_HRAM_mag.XYZ ~6MB |