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Antarctic Science David W.H. Walton, Michael R.A. Thomson and Stephen D. Mobbs Volume 7 1995 Blackwell Science Oxford London Edinburgh Boston Melbourne Berlin Paris Vienna © 1995 British Antarctic Survey Authorization to photocopy for internal or personal use of specific clients is granted by the British Antarctic Survey for libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) Transactional Reporting Service, provided that the base fee of $11.00 per copy is paid directly to the CCC, 22 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying, such as copying for general distribution for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works or for resale. Special requests should be addressed to the Editor 0954 1020/95 $11.00 Published by Blackwell Science Ltd Osney Mead, Oxford 0X2 OEL, UK 25 John Street, London WC1N 2BL, UK 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh EH3 6AJ, UK 238 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA 54 University Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia Arnette Blackwell SA, 1, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, France Blackwell Wissenschaft-Verlag GmbH, Kurfurstendamm 57, D-10707 Berlin, Germany ISSN 0954 1020 Printed in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Contents No. 1 22 February 1995 CONTENTS PAPERS—EARTH SCIENCES AND GLACIOLOGY Guest editorial Current flow in the north-west Weddell Sea. PAPERS—LIFE SCIENCES AND M. BARBER & D. CRANE OCEANOGRAPHY Late Triassic plant fossils from the Prince Charles The aquatic testate amoebae fauna of the Strgmness Mountains, East Antarctica. D.J. CANTRILL, Bay area, South Georgia. L. Bevens, D. CHARDEZ, A.N. Drinnan & J.A. WEBB D. DE BAERE & C. VERBRUGGEN Geochemistry of a fossil hydrothermal system at Heavy metal contamination in some soils of the Barton Peninsula, King George Island. McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica. CuiL-Sup So, SEONG-TAEK YUN & MAENG-EON PARK G.G.C. CraripcE, I.B. CAMPBELL, H.K.J. PowELL, Z.H. AMIN & M.R. BALKsS Geochemistry of Ferrar Dolerite sills and dykes at Terra Cotta Mountain, south Victoria Land, The diets and dietary segregation of sooty Antarctica. A.D. Morrison & A. REAY albatrosses (Phoebetria spp.) at subantarctic Marion Island. J. Cooper & N.T.W. KLAGES The age of the Ritscherflya Supergroup and Borgmassivet Intrusions, Dronning Maud Land, The energetic cost of egg production in Antarctic Antarctica. A.B. Moyes, J.R. Krynauw & krill (Euphausia superba Dana). S. NIcoL, J.M. BARTON Jnr. W.K. De La Mare & M. SToLP Lithostratigraphy of volcanic and sedimentary Isomer-specific analysis and toxic potential sequences in central Livingston Island, South evaluation of polychlorinated biphenyls in Antarctic Shetland Islands. J.L. SmMevuie, M. Liesa, fish, seabirds and Weddell seals from Terra Nova J.A. Munoz, F. SABAT, R. PALLAS & R.C.R WILLAN Bay (Ross Sea). S. Focarpi, R. BARGAGLI & S. CoRSOLINI Short note Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of early Pliocene Short note diatom assemblages from the Larsemann Hills, eastern Antarctica. A. McMinn & D. Harwoop The diet of the Antarctic fish Trematomus newnesi Boulenger, 1902 (Nototheniidae) from Terra Nova Book reviews Bay, Ross Sea. M. VAccui & M. La MESA Noticeboard Instructions for Authors Handy Atlas Map 9 Handy Atlas Map 10 No. 2 26 May 1995 CONTENTS Editorial Form, structure and stability of the margin of the Antarctic ice sheet, Vestfold Hills and Bunger Hills, PAPERS—LIFE SCIENCES AND East Antarctica. S.J. Firzsimons & E.A. CoLHOuN OCEANOGRAPHY Seismic investigation of the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica: in search of the Larsen Basin. Hydrocarbon content of an Antarctic infaunal E.P. Jarvis & E.C. Kinc bivalve—historical record or life cycle changes? G.C. Criprs & J. PRIDDLE New K-Ar isotopic ages of schists from Nordenskjéld Coast, Antarctic Peninsula: oldest Hydrocarbons and sterols in marine sediments and part of the Trinity Peninsula Group? J.L. SMELLIE soils at Davis Station, Antarctica: a survey for & I.L. MILvar. human derived contaminants. G. GREEN & P.D. NICHOLS Short note Mapping ice front changes of Miiller Ice Shelf, Factors affecting the water clarity of ponds on the Antarctic Peninsula. C.G. WARD McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. R.D. PRIDMORE, W.N. Vant & V.J. CUMMINGS PAPERS—ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES PAPERS—EARTH SCIENCES AND A case study of a midtropospheric subsynoptic-scale GLACIOLOGY cyclone that developed over the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica. J.F. CARRASCO & Magnetic investigations of the junction between D.H. BROMWICH Wilson and Bowers terranes (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica). E. Bozzo, G. CANEVA, Book reviews G. Capponi & A. COLLA Noticeboard Late Holocene advance of the Miiller Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula: sedimentological, geochemical Handy Atlas Map 11 and palaeontological evidence. E.W. Domack, S.E. IsHMAN, A.B. STEIN, C.E. MCCLENNEN & Handy Atlas Map 12 A.J.T. JULL No.3 24 August 1995 CONTENTS Guest editorial A new Eocene crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Seymour Island, Antarctica. M. B. AGuirrE-URRETA, S. Marenss! & S. SANTILLANA PAPERS—LIFE SCIENCES AND OCEANOGRAPHY Retrogressive fluids and vein formation during uplift of the Priestley metamorphic complex, North Early life history of the Patagonian toothfish, Victoria Land, Antarctica. D. Craw & Y.A. Cook Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt, 1898 in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. S.A. EvESEENKO, Jurassic titaniferous ironstone in a Devonian host: K-H. Kock & M.M. NEvINsKY Pivot Coal Measures expunged. K. Woo rE, M.J. Arnot & G. M. BRADLEY Sponges of the Lazarev and Weddell Sea, Debate Antarctica: explanation for their patchy occurence. J. Gutt & V.M. KoLtun Naming of igneous and metamorphic rock units in Antarctica: recommendation by SCAR Working Fecundity and reproductive habits in Patagonothen Group on Geology. S.C. Cox & A.H. ALLIBONE/ tessellata (Richardson 1845) from the Beagle J.R. Krynauw , C.A. Ricci, F. Hervé, & Channel, Argentina. G.A. Raz & J. CALvo W.E. LEMASuRIER The diet of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus PAPERS—ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES gazella Peters 1875) during winter at South Georgia. K. REID A pilot study on the interactions between katabatic winds and polynyas at the Adélie Coast, Eastern Ecophysiological investigations of Usnea antarctica Antarctica. U. ApozpHs & G. WENDLER in the maritime Antarctic. I. Annual microclimatic conditions and potential primary production. The local surface energy balance of the Ecology B. ScuRroeTER, M.OLEcH, L. KAppEN & W. HEITLAND Glacier, King George Island, Antarctica: measurements and modelling. R. BINTANIA Reassessment of the first lichen and moss collections from Heimefrontfjella, Dronning Maud The synoptic origins of precipitation over the Land. G. THOR Antarctic Peninsula J. TuRNER, T.A. LAcHLAN-Cope, J.P. THomas & S. R. COLWELL PAPERS—EARTH SCIENCES AND Book reviews GLACIOLOGY Noticeboard Geochronology of Cretaceous granites and metasedimentary basement on Edward VII Handy Atlas Map 13 Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. C.J. Apams, D. SEwarD & S.D. WEAVER No. 4 23 November 1995 CONTENTS Guest editorial Short note Seasonal abundance and size variation in Antarctic PAPERS—LIFE SCIENCES AND populations of the Cladoceran Daphniopsis studeri. OCEANOGRAPHY P.R. Bayuiss & J. LAYBOURN-PARRY An annual profile of growth in the otoliths of PAPERS—EARTH SCIENCES AND immature Notothenia coriiceps Richardson in relation to the environment at Signy Island, GLACIOLOGY Antarctica. J.R. AsHrorp & M.G. WHITE Geomorphological and neotectonic features of Hurd Interpopulation relationships in two species of Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. Antarctic fish Notothenia rossii and R. PALLAS, J.M. VILAPLANA & F, SABAT Champsocephalus gunnari from the Kerguelen Islands: an allozyme study. G. DUHAMEL, C. OzouF- Short note Costaz, G. CATTANEO-BERREBI & P. BERREBI An Eocene tardigrade (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from Seymour Island, West Antarctica. S.F. Vizcaino & Seasonal change in the distribution and density of G.J. SCILLATO- YANE seals in the pack ice off Princess Martha Coast, Antarctica. M.N. Bester, A.W. Erickson & J.W.H. FERGUSON PAPERS—ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Current status of Odontocetes in the Antarctic with Synoptic forcing of wind and temperature in a large a note on significance of beaked whales in the cirque 300 km from the coast of East Antarctica. Antarctic marine ecosystem. F. KAsAMATsu & S. JONSSON G.G. Joyce Chromosome differentiation in the subantarctic A case study of turbulent parameters during the Antarctic winter. C. YAGUE & J.M. REDONDO Bovichtidae species Cottoperca gobio (Giinther, 1861) and Pseudaphritis urvillii (Valenciennes, 1832) (Pisces, Perciformes). E. Pisano, Book reviews C. Ozour-Costaz, J-C. Hureau & R. WILLIAMS Meetings reports The compound eye as an indicator of age and Noticeboard shrinkage in Antarctic krill. S. Sun, W. DE LA MARE Index & S. NICOL Handy Atlas Map 14 Handy Atlas Map 15 Handy Atlas Map 16