Browse Data | 1969 - Scott Glacier

238

Site Information

Site number:: 238

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1969/12/05

Reason Sampled:: Rock sample examination

Description:: A ridge top peak to the north of Mt Czgeka; at the summit amongst rock outcrops; a narrow craggy ridge with pockets of weathering debris

Altitude:: 2025 m

Aspect:: Nil

Slope:: 0 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC	GGC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	86° 21' S 148° 37' W	86° 21' S 148° 37' W
Latitude Longitude DD	-86.350 -148.617	-86.350 -148.617
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.008 0.008	0.008 0.008
Locality	Scott Glacier region, southern Trans-antarctic Mountains at the southern end of the Watson Escarpment
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:: 0 cm

Frozen type:

Frozen comment:

Geology

Geological setting:: Coarse crystalline rocks outcrop with much variation in mineralogy; hornblendite occurs in places

Patterned ground:: Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:: Rock outcrop surfaces show marked oxidation and staining; exfoliation forms manly angular fragments; occasional salt efflorescences on rocks

Soil

Soil parent material:: Rock outcrop

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:

Soil moisture status:: Some small snow pockets; probable brief liquid water on rock surfaces after snow fall and thaw

Biological activity:: Yellow crustose lichen (Lecanora griseomarginata, or Acarospora emergens) in cracks in the rock

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
238						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
238

Clay Mineralogy
Sample name	Mica	IHM	HIV - IHM	ICHL	VT	HIV	CHL	SM	CHL SM	FE - CHL	HT	QTZ	FLD	HB	CAL	Notes
238																:

National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name	NSA Sample Id	Container type	Fraction type
238	M22/1313	Small rectangle	coarse

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