Ross Sea Region Soil Sites
211000
211
23-Nov-1969
IBC, GGC
Scott Glacier region, southern Trans-antarctic Mountains on Ackerman Ridge
Soil weathering examination
US Geological Survey 1:250 000, 1968, Mount Blackburn
No
-148.1500
-86.5600
86deg 33.6'S
148deg 9.0'E
Near the bottom of a spur leading on to an east-west lying part of Ackerman Ridge; on a sloping surface about 50m above Scott Glacier
20
W
1,800
Lower slopes have young till, in places perhaps overlying some older slightly more weathered drift with similar weathering features seen in soil 210
Ultraxerous; scattered snow remnants
-38
Inland Mountain
Residual till and possibly some wind-blown fines in fractured granitic regolith
Nil Observed
Nil observed
SURFACE WEATHERING or |
SURFACE FEATURES |
Surface rock fragments mostly angular with little staining
Nil
211 0-10cm
101
pale olive (5Y 6/3) bouldery sandy to silty gravel
102
loose
103
rock particles angular and unstained
104
distinct boundary,
211a 10-20cm
201
light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4-10YR 6/4) sandy to silty gravel
202
loose
203
few fine salt flecks
204
rock particles subangular to rounded and unstained
Yes
a
Dry frozen
20
2
(>20cm)
Soluble Salt |
Concentration |
21100001
68.00
21100001
21100001
12-Dec-2005
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