Ross Sea Region Soil Sites
128000
128
14-Jan-1965
IBC, GGC
Victoria Land, Trans-antarctic Mountains; in Barwick Valley, part of the McMurdo Sound Dry Valley system
Salt characterisation
USGS 1:250 000 1986; Ross Island and Vicinity, Antarctica
No
161.0130
-77.3450
77deg 20.7'S
-161deg -0.8'E
A salty hollow near Hourglass Lake
0
Nil
650
cf. Notes for GEOLAND below
(0o)
Xerous to subxerous; the soils are moist in salty depressions
-23
Central mountains
Nil observed
| SURFACE WEATHERING or |
| SURFACE FEATURES |
Surface salt efflorescences
Nil
128 0
101
Salt sample
102
not described
Yes
a
0
Geoland
| Webb Glacier in the upper Barwick Valley has retreated and left a series of till deposits and moraine surfaces of differing ages; the site is on ice-cored moraines |
| mapped by Calkin as Packard Drift (youngest); salts occur at the surface of the soils in numerous small patches in hollows |
| Soluble Salt |
| Concentration |
12800001
128a
0-1cm
0
1
none
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