The Antarctic Drilling Program (ANDRILL) successfully drilled and cored a borehole, AND-1B, beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf and into a fl exural moat basin that surrounds Ross Island. Total drilling depth reached 1285 m below seafl oor (mbsf) with 98 percent core recovery for the detailed study of glacier dynamics. With the goal of obtaining complementary information regarding heat fl ow and perm...

The Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces are two isolated remote occurrences located along the rifted margin of Western Antarctica in Ross Sea. They include oceanic plateaus, seamounts, islands. Although activity has been documented through sensing, there is no geochronological data based on radio-isotope methods constraining duration this region. As a consequence, hypotheses, interpretation ch...

Volcanic sills and dikes inferred from seismic reflection profiles and geophysical studies of the Ross Sea are thought to be related to the rift basins in the region, and their emplacement to be coeval with extension. However, lack of precise geochronology in the Terror Rift of the Ross Sea region has left these inferred relationships poorly constrained and has hindered neotectonic studies, bec...

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION Adult stem cells represent quiescent cells that once prompted, they proliferate with the potential to differentiate into a range of progeny providing regenerative medicine with novel tools for cure and rehabilitation. However, the risk that these proliferating stem cells could easily become a tumor cell sets barriers for their use. But, how are stem cells involved in tumor ...

Captain Jack Coulter have completed the task that he began. The present and finial volunme deals wvith naval medical affairs in the nineteenth century, between 1815-1900, a period durinig which, aipart from the Crimean War, there were few major naval engagements. But this was an age of exploration and of administrative andl hygienic reform; one that vitnessed great changes in the status of the ...