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6. Acknowledgements 
We would like to thank EOS Data gateway center (Earth 
Observing System, NASA) for having supplied us the Aster 
sensor image. 
The Biotite and Serpentinite charts were reproduced from the 
ASTER Spectral Library through the courtesy of the Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 
Pasadena, California. Copyright € 1999, California Institute of 
Technology. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 
Tables 
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Figure Captions 
Figure 1. Geologic map (Capponi et al., 1999) of the study area 
Prince Albert Mountain, around the Larsen Glacier (the digital 
map has been rectified in the Polar Stereographic coordinate 
system, WGS 84 spheroid). 
Figure 2. The ASTER sensor scene of 1/11/2000 in false colour 
composition (red channel: near infrared; green channel: red; 
blue channel: green) the image has been rectified in the Stereo 
Polar coordinate system (WGS 84 spheroid). 
Figure 3. Spectral responses of the Serpentinite (light blue) and 
the Biotite (yellow). The charts came from the Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory (JPL) spectral libraries. 
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Figure 4. CEM algorithm estimated Biotite concentrations: 
white pixels have high values while dark pixels, low values. 
Figure 4a. Absolute frequencies histogram of the fig. 4 pixel 
values. 
Figure 35. CEM algorithm estimated Serpentinite 
concentrations: white pixels have high values while dark pixels, 
low values. 
Figure 5a. Absolute frequencies histogram of the fig. 5 pixel 
values. 
Figure 6. Three classification levels of the Biotite concentration 
(see text for more details) 
Figure 7. Three classification. levels of the Serpentinite 
concentration (sce text for more details) 
Figure 8. The image shows in pink the high Biotite and low 
Serpenite areas; in violet are drawn instead the low Biotite and 
high Serpentinite areas. In order to make a first classification 
check, we overlaid on the pink and the violet areas two vector 
layers, which were drawn on the basis of the PNRA map. The 
yellow vector layer shows the Biotite areas (GHGr), while the 
green one, the Serpentinite areas (GHGa).