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German-Italian Geological Antarctic Map Programme - The Italian Contribution - A Map case for 30 Year of the Italian Research Programme in Antarctica (1985-2015) + 8 geological maps
Since the beginning of the 1980\u2019s northern Victoria Land has been the main
geological research area of both, German and Italian Antarctic programmes. In
1995, both teams began a collaborative geological mapping programme under the
acronym of GIGAMAP (German-Italian Geological Antarctic MAp Programme) for
the entire area of northern Victoria Land. The aim was the publication of a series
of 1:250 000 geological reconnaissance
maps (see Fig. 1). The scale was preset
by the only available detailed topographicmap base. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) kindly provided this base
in the form of 18 quadrangles for northern Victoria Land named after prominent
topographic features. The 18 sheets of northern Victoria Land and the bipartition
between the German Antarctic North Victoria Land Expedition (GANOVEX) and
the Italian Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA) are indicated in
figure 1. The reconnaissance map of Welcome Mountain quadrangle was published
in 1989 as a US-German cooperation, compiled by Edmund Stump (Stump, 1989).
This ambitious programme imposed a long preliminary preparation especially in
order to agree on common stratigraphic and tectonic schemes and nomenclature
which also implied joint excursions in the field (and long discussions in front of
the outcrops).
The eight maps coordinated by the Italians were printed and published in the
period of 1997-2012. They were realized in the ambit and with the logistic and
financial support of PNRA.
The individual maps were made available to the scientific community for free,
as soon as they were printed. An exchange programme of distribution of maps
among the national Antarctic libraries of all the countries operating in Antarctica
were conducted under the auspices of the SCAR-AGI working group.
The German team has published six map sheets so far. The three remaining
ones are planned to be finished within the next two years. These comprise the
sheets \u201cDaniels Range\u201d, \u201cMt. Soza\u201d, and last but not least \u201cCape Hallett\u201d.
The eight geological maps produced by the Italian teams have been collected in
this map case as a contribution of the Italian National Antarctic Museum and Terra
Antartica Publication in occasion of the 30th anniversary of PNRA 1985-2015