Ross Sea Region Soil Sites
119000
119
6-Jan-1965
IBC, GGC
Victoria Land, Trans-antarctic Mountains; at the southern end of the Cook Mountains in the Brown Hills region of the Darwin Glacier
Weathering examination
USGS 1:250,000 1963; Carlyon Glacier ST 57-60/13*
No
158.3000
-79.8333
79deg 50.0'S
-158deg -18.0'E
The southwest end of the Brown Hills on Bastion Hill; an outcrop of Beacon Group rocks on the north side of Bastion Hill
4
N
1,400
A small exposure of Beacon Group sediments occur above the granite
Oceanic subxerous; some snow patches on ridges and snow was currently falling
-28
Coastal mountain
An accumulation of disaggregated fine sedimentary rock material over sedimentary rock
Nil observed
SURFACE WEATHERING or |
SURFACE FEATURES |
Nil
119a 0-5cm
101
light grey (10YR 7/2) granular silty sand
102
cohesive
103
rock particles partly cemented with fines, rounded to subrounded with tabular pebbly exfoliated sandstone |
fragments |
104
unstained
Yes
a
0
3
Soluble Salt |
Concentration |
11900001
119a
0-5cm
0
5
none
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