Title: Andrzej%20Tatur%20Department%20of%20Antarctic%20Biology%20Polish%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%20operator%20of%20
1Andrzej TaturDepartment of Antarctic
BiologyPolish Academy of Sciencesoperator of
Arctowski station
- Activity of Polish scientists
- in
- Past Climate Reconstruction
2Gondwana 180 Ma BP
Position of continents and direction of marine
currents
Upper Eocene
Oligocene
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5 Greenhouse" climates of the Eocene, with local
alpine glaciers advances
Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island
Eocene Harve Cove tillite, KGI
6in scenery resembling recent Patagonian glaciers
(El Tronador 41/S)
7were replaced in Oligocene by the "icehouse"
conditions
Lower Oligocene Polonez Cove Formation, KGI
8that persist today
Miocene Melville Cape Formation, KGI
9My adventure in hard geology(sedimentary rocks
near Antarctic Peninsula)
- Myrcha A., Tatur A. and del Valle R. 1990. A
new species of fossil penguin from Seymour Island
(West Antarctica) Alcheringa 14 195-205. - Gazdzicki A., Gruszczynski M., Hoffman A.,
Malkowski K., Marensi S., Halas S. and Tatur A.
1992. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope record in
the Paleogene of La Meseta Formation Seymour
Island Antarctica. Antarctic Science 4,4 461
468. - Tambussi C., Noriega J., Gazdzicki A., Tatur
A., Reguero M.A. and Vizcaino S.F. 1994. Ratite
bird from the Paleogene La Meseta formation
Seymour Island Antarctica 1994. Pol. Polar
Res.15,1-2 15 - 20. - Myrcha A., Jadwiszczak P., Noriega J.,
Tambussi C., Gazdzicki A., Tatur A., del Valle R.
2002. Taxonomic revision of Antarctic Eocene
penguins based on tarsometatarsus morphology.
Polish Polar Research 23,1 5-46 - Gazdzicki A., Tatur A., Hara U., del Valle R.
2004. The Weddell Sea Formation post-Late
Pliocene terrestrial glacial deposits on Seymour
Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Pol. Polar Res. 25,
189-204. - Birkenmajer K., Gazdzicki A., Krajewski K.,
Przybycin A., Solecki A., Tatur A., Ho Il Yoon
2005. First Cenozoic glaciers in West Antarctica.
Pol. Polar Res 26,1 3-12. - Jadwiszczak P., Gazdzicki A. And Tatur A.
2008. An ibis-like from the upper La Meseta
Formation (late Eocene) of Seymour Island,
Antarctica. Antarctic Science 20,4 413-414.
10Esmeralda Lake, KGI, problems of dating and
tephra fallouts interpretation
11Esmeralda Lake, KGI, Diatoms as indicators of
ecological changes,
12Penguin Island volcano
13Maar Lake 1,0 - 1,5 ky old
14Maar Lake,global contra local impact
15Past Climate Reconstruction
- Regional and global climatic records from ice
cores (covering almost 1 Ma), - are prolonging back to 40 Ma in geological
studies, - and are enriching in local event following the
last glaciation due to paleolimnological
evidences.