Ross Sea Region Soil Sites
77000
77
10-Dec-1964
IBC, GGC
Shackleton Glacier, Queen Maud Mountains, at the southern end of the Cumulus Hills, just north of Zaneveld Glacier junction with Shackleton Glacier
Weathering examination
USGS 1:250 000 1968; Liv Glacier SV 1-10/5
B&W Lscp
No
176.2830
-85.3667
85deg 22.0'S
-176deg -17.0'E
On an undulating surface, a little below (60m) and just east of Wiest Bluff on a young ice-cored till surface
0
Nil
2,100
cf. Notes for GEOLAND below
(0o)
Ultraxerous, intermittent snow cover but no thawing observed
-40
inland mountain
A small patch of fine textured yellow coloured drift
Nil observed
Ice cored moraine with low (<1m) mounds, in places forming low ridges
| SURFACE WEATHERING or |
| SURFACE FEATURES |
Some exfoliation of surface boulders but may be preweathering
Nil
Stagnant ice
0
Geoland
| Dolerite outcrops widely in an undulating ice overridden landscape; cover deposits are patchy varying from bouldery felsenmeer regolith to intermittent till |
| patches; surface age is variable owing to remnant snow fields which behave as local nevee glaciers; the drift mantle is young but may include previously |
| weathered materials |
| Soluble Salt |
| Concentration |
12-Dec-2005
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