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Site Information

Site number:: 55

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1964/12/01

Reason Sampled:: Soil crust examination, single sample

Description:: NE facing slope, about 15m above glacier level, on a scree slope on the lower slopes of ridge, 2km NNW of Mt.Kenyon

Altitude:: 1700 m

Aspect:: NE

Slope:: 25 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	85° 09' S 174° 58' W
Latitude Longitude DD	-85.150 -174.967
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.008 0.008
Locality	Shackleton Glacier, Queen Maud Mountains, on mountain slopes to the south of McGregor Glacier at the northern end of the Cumulus Hills
Survey	USGS 1:250 000 1968; Liv Glacier SV 1-10/5

Climate

Soil climate zone:: Central mountain

Estimated mean annual temperature:: -35 °C

Frozen ground depth:: 30 cm

Frozen type:: Hard ice-cemented

Frozen comment:: 30cm

Geology

Geological setting:: Ferrar Dolerite sills outcrop with Beacon Group sediments, these rocks forming the main components of the tills which mantle most of the lower slopes

Patterned ground:: Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:: Subrounded to subangular dolerite cobbles and pebbles with moderate surface staining; accumulated fine material forming a surface crust

Soil

Soil parent material:: Mainly dolerite and some fine grained sedimentary rocks with some addition of aeolian sediment (snow loess)

Previous disturbance:: Nil

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

Soil moisture status:: Xerous; numerous snow patches but no thawing

Biological activity:: Nil observed

Profile Description
Horizon	Depth	Description
55a	0 – 5 cm	yellowish red to brownish yellow (7.5YR 6/6-10YR 6/4) gravelly silt; cohesive; vesicular structure.

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
55	0-5cm	0	5

Sample solution chemistry
Sample name	pH	Na meq/100g	Ca meq/100g	Mg meq/100g	K meq/100g	Cl meq/100g	SO₄ meq/100g	NO₃ meq/100g	EC mmho/cm	Soluble Salt	Notes
55	7.9	2.5	2.0	0.4	0.02	0.2	4.2	0.9	.	0.56

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
55	73	37.6	18.6	13.6	1.9	4.5	14.1	8.7	0.95	.

Clay Mineralogy
Sample name	Mica	IHM	HIV - IHM	ICHL	VT	HIV	CHL	SM	CHL SM	FE - CHL	HT	QTZ	FLD	HB	CAL	Notes
55	50.0	.	.	.	.	.	30.0	20.0	.	.	.	.	.	.

National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name	NSA Sample Id	Container type	Fraction type
55	M22/0593	medium	coarse
55	M22/0594	large	fine

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