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76

Site Information

Site number:: 76

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1964/12/10

Reason Sampled:: Weathering examination

Description:: The crest of a hill at Wiest Bluff, a rounded convex surface with no cover material; sample collected from crevasses in dolerite rock

Altitude:: 2160 m

Aspect:: Nil

Slope:: 0 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	85° 22' S 176° 24' W
Latitude Longitude DD	-85.367 -176.400
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.008 0.008
Locality	Shackleton Glacier, Queen Maud Mountains, at the southern end of the Cumulus Hills, just north of Zaneveld Glacier junction with Shackleton Glacier
Survey	USGS 1:250 000 1968; Liv Glacier SV 1-10/5

Climate

Soil climate zone:: Inland mountain

Site temperature profile
Depth (cm)	Soil temp (°C)	Notes
0	6	(sunny day) soil surface
2	1
15	-11

Estimated mean annual temperature:: -40 °C

Frozen ground depth:: 10 cm

Frozen type:

Frozen comment:: 10cm

Geology

Geological setting:: Dolerite outcrops widely in an undulating ice overridden landscape; cover deposits are patchy varying from bouldery felsenmeer regolith to intermittent till patches; surface age is variable owing to remnant snow fields which behave as local nevee glaciers

Patterned ground:: Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:

Soil

Soil parent material:: Aeolian deposit and weathered rock material

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:: 5 (Campbell & Claridge 1975)

Soil moisture status:: Ultraxerous, intermittent snow cover but no thawing observed

Biological activity:: Nil observed

Profile Description
Horizon	Depth	Description
76a	0 – 3 cm	light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) granular sand; alongside dolerite rock; the soil is dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) with reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) flecks

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
76	0-3cm	0	3

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
76	7.0	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.03	0.2	.	.	.	0.06

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
76	61	17.2	14.0	43.6	5.7	3.8	8.4	6.8	0.43	.

Clay Mineralogy
Sample name	Mica	IHM	HIV - IHM	ICHL	VT	HIV	CHL	SM	CHL SM	FE - CHL	HT	QTZ	FLD	HB	CAL	Notes
76	35.0	.	.	.	10.0	.	.	45.0	.	10.0	.	.	.	.

National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name	NSA Sample Id	Container type	Fraction type
76	M22/0674	medium	coarse
76	M22/0675	medium	fine

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