<正> COLLINS ice cap is located in King George Island south of Shetland Islands,Antarctic.The icecap is exposed over an area of about 1 300 km2,amounting to 90% of the island.China na-tional scientific expeditions to the Antarctic studied and investigated Collins ice cap systemati-cally from May to October 1992 when they drilled six ice cores in Low ice dome.Volcano ex-trusion in ice core from Collins ice cap suggested by Dia et al.is favourable for defining