Browse Data | 1964 - Hallett Peninsula

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Site Information

Site number:: 22

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1964/11/03

Reason Sampled:: Weathering examination

Description:: A rocky knoll on Redcastle ridge,

Altitude:: 250 m

Aspect:: N

Slope:: 15 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	72° 27' S 169° 58' E
Latitude Longitude DD	-72.450 169.967
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.008 0.008
Locality	Northern Victoria Land near Hallett Peninsula; at Redcastle Ridge between the Arneb and Edisto Glaciers
Survey	MZMS 166; 1960 Tucker Glacier

Climate

Soil climate zone:: Coastal Antarctic

Estimated mean annual temperature:: -16 °C

Frozen ground depth:: 0 NoObs

Frozen type:: NoObs

Frozen comment:: NoObs

Geology

Geological setting:: A plug of dense basalt among black and red scoriaceous basalt and brown tuffites of the McMurdo Volcanic Group

Patterned ground:: Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:: Angular dense basalt from rock outcrop

Soil

Soil parent material:: Coarse fragmental basalt with some wind deposited material?

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:: 1 (Campbell & Claridge 1975)

Soil moisture status:: Oceanic subxerous, soil moisture derived from occasional snowfalls

Biological activity:: Nil Observed

Profile Description
Horizon	Depth	Description
22a	0 – 5 cm	greyish brown (2.5Y 5/2) pebble and cobble gravel; loose; rock fragments angular and unstained.

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
22	0-5cm	0	5

Particle size distribution
Sample name	< 2 mm	2 - 0.5 mm	0.5 - 0.25 mm	0.25 - 0.1 mm	0.1 - 0.05 mm	0.05 - 0.02 mm	0.02 - 0.002 mm	< 0.002 mm	Fe₂O₃	CaCO₃	Notes
22	46	.	.	.	.	.	.		.	.	PartSize : not analysed

Clay Mineralogy
Sample name	Mica	IHM	HIV - IHM	ICHL	VT	HIV	CHL	SM	CHL SM	FE - CHL	HT	QTZ	FLD	HB	CAL	Notes
22																not analysed

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