Ross Sea Region Soil Sites
565000
565
26-Jan-1988
IBC, GGC
Ross Island; Hut Point Peninsula
Soil weathering exaamination
Ross Island & Vicinity, Antarctica, 1:250 000 US Geological Survey, 1986
CS Lscp
No
166.7000
-77.8508
77deg 51.0'S
-166deg -42.0'E
1.2km west Scott Base at The Gap; on the north side of the Scott Base to McMurdo road on a sloping scraped surface bout 10m from the road
8
SW
60
Rocks of the area are McMurdo Volcanics with a thin till cover; the drift mantle is patchy; the area has been scraped for construction material and thawing of ice wedges is |
showing the patterned ground |
(8o)
Oceanic subxerous; a moist environment with summer thaw
-18
Coastal Antarctic
Basaltic scoria and sandy gravel
Nil
A rectangular pattern of small 4m nets with thawing in the troughs
SURFACE WEATHERING or |
SURFACE FEATURES |
A scraped ground surface
565a 0-5cm
101
greyish brown (10YR 5/2) silty sand from sand in a patterned ground crack
102
loose
103
rock particles mainly subrounded to rounded and unstained,
565b 0-5cm
201
dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) scoria gravel
202
some salt precipitations
203
rock particles subangular and unstained
Yes
0
1
Soluble Salt |
Concentration |
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56500001
56500002
56500003
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