Browse Data | 1969 - Scott Glacier

293

Site Information

Site number:: 293

Authors:: BCW/HRK;IBC,GGC

Date recorded:: 1970/01/12

Reason Sampled:: Soil weathering examination

Description:: Feeney Peak

Altitude:: 1200 m

Aspect:

Slope:: 0 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC	GGC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	85° 37' S 155° 49' W	85° 37' S 155° 44' W
Latitude Longitude DD	-85.617 -155.817	-85.617 -155.733
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.008 0.008	0.008 0.008
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:: The area has a complex and variable sequence of rocks including metasedimentary quartzite, marbles, schists, and granitised sediments

Patterned ground:

Surface weathering or surface features:

Soil

Soil parent material:: Silty till

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:

Soil moisture status:

Biological activity:

Profile Description
Horizon	Depth	Description
293a	0 – 7 cm	light olive grey (5Y 6/2) silty gravel; loose; some salt flecks; rock particles subrounded and some partly altered,
293b	18 – 20 cm	light olive grey (5Y 6/20 silty gravel; moderately cohesive; rock particles subrounded with some distinctly altered

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
293a	0-7cm	0.0	7.0			No
293b	18-20cm	18.0	20.0			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
293a
293b

Clay Mineralogy
Sample name	Mica	IHM	HIV - IHM	ICHL	VT	HIV	CHL	SM	CHL SM	FE - CHL	HT	QTZ	FLD	HB	CAL	Notes
293a																:
293b																:

National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name	NSA Sample Id	Container type	Fraction type
293a	M22/1625	White lid small	coarse
293a	M22/1626	medium	fine
293a	M22/7180	Glass vial metal lid
293b	M22/1627	White lid small	coarse
293b	M22/1628	medium	fine
293b	M22/7181	Glass vial metal lid

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