Browse Data | 1964 - Shackleton Glacier

60

Site Information

Site number:: 60

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1964/12/01

Reason Sampled:: Weathering examination

Description:: On the valley side to the north of Mt. Kenyon on a talus slope at an outcrop of Beacon Group sediments

Altitude:: 1900 m

Aspect:: NE

Slope:: 10 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	85° 10' S 174° 58' W
Latitude Longitude DD	-85.17 -174.967
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.08 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:: 0 cm

Frozen type:

Frozen comment:

Geology

Geological setting:: Beacon Group sediments range from quartzites to carboniferous shales; in places the shales are altered and are graphitic

Patterned ground:: Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:

Soil

Soil parent material:: Black graphitic shale

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:

Soil moisture status:: Xerous;

Biological activity:: Nil observed

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
60

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
60											PartSize : not analysed

Clay Mineralogy
Sample name	Mica	IHM	HIV - IHM	ICHL	VT	HIV	CHL	SM	CHL SM	FE - CHL	HT	QTZ	FLD	HB	CAL	Notes
60																not analysed

National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name	NSA Sample Id	Container type	Fraction type
60	M22/0604	large	mixed

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