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Danco Coast, the Glossary

The Danco Coast is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard.^[1]

32 relations: Adrien de Gerlache, Agglomerate, Andesite, Antarctic Peninsula, Basalt, Belgian Antarctic Expedition, Berriasian, Cenomanian, Chavdar Peninsula, Dike (geology), Early Cretaceous, Fault (geology), Flandres Bay, Fold (geology), Gabbro, Gondwanide orogeny, Granite, Group (stratigraphy), Hughes Bay, Intrusive rock, Late Cretaceous, Lava, Lemaire Island, Paradise Harbour, Permian, Sill (geology), Subvolcanic rock, Tectonic block, Tertiary, Triassic, Tuff, Volcano.
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Adrien de Gerlache

Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (2 August 1866 – 4 December 1934) was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.

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Agglomerate

Agglomerate (from the Latin agglomerare meaning "to form into a ball") is a coarse accumulation of large blocks of volcanic material that contains at least 75% bombs.

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Andesite

Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.

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The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Belgian Antarctic Expedition

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region.

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Berriasian

In the geological timescale, the Berriasian is an age/stage of the Early/Lower Cretaceous.

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Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.

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Chavdar Peninsula

Chavdar Peninsula is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.

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Dike (geology)

In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Flandres Bay

Flandres Bay is a large bay lying between Cape Renard and Cape Willems, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.

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Fold (geology)

In structural geology, a fold is a stack of originally planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved ("folded") during permanent deformation.

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Gabbro

Gabbro is a phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass deep beneath the Earth's surface.

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Gondwanide orogeny

The Gondwanide orogeny was an orogeny active in the Permian that affected parts of Gondwana that are by current geography now located in southern South America, South Africa, Antarctica, Australia and New Guinea.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Group (stratigraphy)

In geology, a group is a lithostratigraphic unit consisting of a series of related formations that have been classified together to form a group.

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Hughes Bay

Hughes Bay is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Intrusive rock

Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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Lemaire Island

Lemaire Island is an island long and wide, lying west of Duthiers Point off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.

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Paradise Harbour

Paradise Harbour is a wide embayment behind Lemaire Island and Bryde Island, indenting the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Duthiers Point and Leniz Point.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

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Sill (geology)

In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock.

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Subvolcanic rock

A subvolcanic rock, also known as a hypabyssal rock, is an intrusive igneous rock that is emplaced at depths less than within the crust, and has intermediate grain size and often porphyritic texture between that of volcanic rocks, which are extrusive igneous rocks, and plutonic rocks, which form much deeper in the ground.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danco_Coast