Ross Sea Region Soil Sites
223000
223
25-Nov-1969
IBC, GGC
Scott Glacier region, southern Trans-antarctic Mountains on Ackerman Ridge
Salt sample
US Geological Survey 1:250 000, 1968, Mount Blackburn
CS Lscp & Pro
No
-147.9670
-86.5583
86deg 33.5'S
147deg 58.0'E
On an east/west trending portion of Ackerman Ridge on a boulder granitic surface on a knoll on the ridge
0
Nil
2,200
Weathering continues on the surfaces at higher altitude with alteration and oxidation to greater than 30cm depth; salt patches are common under many surface stones
Dry soil, occasional snow patches
-40
Inland Mountain
Fragmented granitic bedrock
Nil Observed
Nil
SURFACE WEATHERING or |
SURFACE FEATURES |
Surface boulders are angular with patchy surface staining but negligible staining on undersides; salts occur under stones and as thick discrete accumulations |
in the soil |
Nil
223 0-35cm
201
brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) bouldery gravel
202
weakly cohesive
203
scattered large salt patches
223 6-0cm
101
surface cobbles and boulders mostly angular and weakly to moderately stained,
Yes
a(x2)
Dry-frozen
0
4
Soluble Salt |
Concentration |
22300001
90.00
22300001
6.10
97.50
650.00
24.00
205.00
0.38
0.30
307.00
728.00
soda nitre/darapskite/hexahydrite
22300001
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