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Site Information
- Site number:
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60
- Authors:
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IBC, GGC
- Date recorded:
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1964/12/01
- Reason Sampled:
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Weathering examination
- Description:
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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:
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NE
- Slope:
- 10 °
Location Data
Observer |
IBC |
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GPS |
No |
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Latitude Longitude DMS |
85° 10' S 174° 58' W |
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Latitude Longitude DD |
-85.17 -174.967 |
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Latitude longitude precision DD |
0.08 0.008 |
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Locality |
Shackleton Glacier, Queen Maud Mountains, on mountain slopes to the south of McGregor Glacier at the northern end of the Cumulus Hills |
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Survey |
USGS 1:250 000 1968; Liv Glacier SV 1-10/5 |
Climate
- Soil climate zone:
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Central mountain
- Estimated mean annual temperature:
- -35
°C
- Frozen ground depth:
- 0 cm
- Frozen type:
-
- Frozen comment:
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Geology
- Geological setting:
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Beacon Group sediments range from quartzites to carboniferous shales; in places the shales are altered and are graphitic
- Patterned ground:
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Nil
- Surface weathering or surface features:
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Soil
- Soil parent material:
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Black graphitic shale
- Previous disturbance:
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Nil
- Soil weathering stage:
- 6
- Soil moisture status:
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Xerous;
- Biological activity:
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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
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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
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| PartSize : not analysed
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Clay Mineralogy
Sample name | Mica | IHM | HIV - IHM | ICHL | VT | HIV | CHL | SM | CHL SM | FE - CHL | HT | QTZ | FLD | HB | CAL | Notes |
60
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not analysed
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National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name | NSA Sample Id | Container type | Fraction type |
60
|
M22/0604
|
large
|
mixed
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Photos
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