ANTARCTIC METEORITE LOCATION AND MAPPING PROJECT (AMLAMP)
ABOUT AMLAMP
The Antarctic Meteorite Location and Mapping Project (AMLAMP) is
and outgrowth of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) project. ANSMET
is a United States National Science Foundation sponsored project (and more recently,
supplemented by funding from NASA) which has been funded continuously since 1976
to recover meteorites from Antarctica. Since the 1976-77 austral summer,
approximately 16,000 meteorite specimens have been recovered from Antarctica by
ANSMET expeditions. Locational data of many of these specimens have been obtained
and recorded. The AMLAMP has been supported by the Lunar and Planetary Institute
where the databases were developed and maintained and maps produced. The
CAM mapping program described in the text has been phased out and the original
hard copy maps are no longer available. The mapping is now done in the ESRI ARCGIS
environment. Two explanatory texts have been published along with maps of
many of the areas searched by ANSMET (Schutt et al. 1989, Schutt et al. 1993).
Updated explanatory texts are to be found at this web site.
Please Note:
The Table Contents will be your "Basecamp" for your explorations of Antarctic
meteorite stranding sites. You won't need GPS to navigate to these sites. Just
come back to "Basecamp" and go from there.
Traverse to the AMLAMP Explanatory Text Table of Contents to start your explorations.
References
Schutt, J., Fessler, B., and Cassidy, W.A., The Antarctic Meteorite
Location and Mapping Project (AMLAMP) Explanatory Texts, Lunar and Planetary
Institute Technical Report 89-02, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston,
58 pp.
Schutt, J., Fessler, B., and Cassidy, W.A., The Antarctic Meteorite
Location and Mapping Project (AMLAMP) Explanatory Texts, Lunar and Planetary
Institute Technical Report 93-07, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston,
179 pp.
Page last updated:
04/25/2005