James Dell is a research fellow with the University of Tasmania's Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Australian Antarctic Division. His position is funded by the Fisheries Research and ...
How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a ...
"After the partial breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, into the pieces now known as Australia, India and Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau began forming on top of a mushroom-shaped mantle ...
Beneath the southern oceans lies an entire sunken world. Scientists have discovered that the Kerguelen Plateau is not just a ...
We investigated the contribution of distinct bacterial groups to bulk abundance and leucine incorporation during a spring phytoplankton bloom induced by natural iron fertilization in the Southern ...
Geologists have found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the world's most continuously active -- erupting for 30 million years -- fueled by a constantly moving 'conveyor belt' of magma.