On an undulating surface, a little below (60m) and just east of Wiest Bluff on a young ice-cored till surface
Altitude:
2100 m
Aspect:
Nil
Slope:
0 °
Location Data
Observer
IBC
GPS
No
Latitude Longitude DMS
85° 22' S 176° 17' W
Latitude Longitude DD
-85.367 -176.283
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
Estimated mean annual temperature:
-40
°C
Frozen ground depth:
0 cm
Frozen type:
Stagnant ice
Frozen comment:
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; the drift mantle is young but may include previously weathered materials
Patterned ground:
Ice cored moraine with low (<1m) mounds, in places forming low ridges
Surface weathering or surface features:
Some exfoliation of surface boulders but may be preweathering
Soil
Soil parent material:
A small patch of fine textured yellow coloured drift
Previous disturbance:
Nil
Soil weathering stage:
6
Soil moisture status:
Ultraxerous, intermittent snow cover but no thawing observed