Meyer Hills in the southeast of the Heritage Range, approximately 1.5km northeast of Beaudoin Peak on a narrow rocky ridge; a cleft in the ridge
Altitude:
775 m
Aspect:
Nil
Slope:
0 °
Location Data
Observer
IBC
GGC
GPS
No
Latitude Longitude DMS
79° 48' S 80° 58.5' W
79° 48' S 80° 58.5' W
Latitude Longitude DD
-79.800 -80.975
-79.800 -80.975
Latitude longitude precision DD
0.008 0.004
0.008 0.004
Locality
West Antarctica in Ellsworth Land at the southern end of the Ellsworth Mountains
Survey
US Geological Survey, 1:250 000, 1967, Union Glacier
Climate
Soil climate zone:
Inland/Coastal Mountain
Estimated mean annual temperature:
-25
°C
Frozen ground depth:
15 > cm
Frozen type:
Frozen comment:
>15cm
Geology
Geological setting:
The Ellsworth Mountains comprise a thick sequence of folded metasedimentary rocks comprising limestones, conglomerates and quartzites dating to Precambrian; the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is believed to have fluctuated greatly in response to global sea level changes and evidence of these fluctuations should be present in the tills and soil weathering record; the Meyer Hills are predominantly quartzitic sandstones
Patterned ground:
Nil
Surface weathering or surface features:
Rock outcrops fragmented with patchy surface staining
Soil
Soil parent material:
Fragmented greywacke/argillite; fines possibly windblown