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Site Information

Site number:: 232

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1969/11/30

Reason Sampled:: Soil weathering examination

Description:: La Gorce Mountains at the northwestern end near Mt Gjertsen and from a site on the ridgetop near the northern summit ridge knoll

Altitude:: 1950 m

Aspect:: N

Slope:: 3 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC	GGC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	86° 37.5' S 148° 16' W	86° 37.5' S 148° 16' W
Latitude Longitude DD	-86.625 -148.267	-86.625 -148.267
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.004 0.008	0.004 0.008
Locality	Scott Glacier region, southern Trans-antarctic Mountains in the La Gorce Mountains
Survey	US Geological Survey 1:250 000 1968, Mount Blackburn

Climate

Soil climate zone:: Inland Mountain

Estimated mean annual temperature:: -40 °C

Frozen ground depth:: 10 > cm

Frozen type:: Dry-frozen

Frozen comment:: >10cm

Geology

Geological setting:: Quartzites and quartzitic greywackes of the La Gorce Formation are common in the area; porphyritic volcanic rocks are also present

Patterned ground:: Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:: Some scattered salts; moderate surface staining

Soil

Soil parent material:: Fragmented dark porphyritic bedrock with locally derived fines

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:: 6 3 (Campbell & Claridge 1975)

Soil moisture status:: Scattered snow patches but no indications of snow thaw or liquid water

Biological activity:: Nil at site

Profile Description
Horizon	Depth	Description
232a	0 – 10 cm	light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy to silty pebbly to bouldery gravel; weakly to moderately cohesive; patchy well developed vesicular structure; scattered small salt flecks; distinct boundary, on fragmented bedrock

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
232	0-10cm	0	10			No

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
232

Clay Mineralogy
Sample name	Mica	IHM	HIV - IHM	ICHL	VT	HIV	CHL	SM	CHL SM	FE - CHL	HT	QTZ	FLD	HB	CAL	Notes
232																:

National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name	NSA Sample Id	Container type	Fraction type
232	M22/1291	White lid small	coarse
232	M22/1292	medium	fine
232	M22/7029	Glass vial metal lid

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