Coastal hills between the Robert Scott Glacier and the Amundsen Glacier; at O'Brien Peak near the top; a rocky surface with small pockets of till between rock outcrops
Altitude:
490 m
Aspect:
Nil
Slope:
0 °
Location Data
Observer
IBC
GGC
GPS
No
Latitude Longitude DMS
85° 28' S 156° 40' W
85° 28' S 156° 40' W
Latitude Longitude DD
-85.467 -156.67
-85.467 -156.67
Latitude longitude precision DD
0.008 0.08
0.008 0.08
Locality
Scott Glacier region, southern Trans-antarctic Mountains, on the West side of the Robert Scott Glacier, about 2km from the coast west of the Medina Peaks
Survey
Mount Goodale
Climate
Soil climate zone:
Coastal Mountain
Estimated mean annual temperature:
-20
°C
Frozen ground depth:
0 cm
Frozen type:
Frozen comment:
Geology
Geological setting:
O'Brien Peak area has a complex and variable sequence of rocks including metasedimentary quartzite, marbles, schists, and granitised sediments
Patterned ground:
Nil
Surface weathering or surface features:
Surface bedrock exposures have distinctly oxidised surfaces
Soil
Soil parent material:
Dominantly granitic till with minor gneiss and hornfels