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106

Site Information

Site number:: 106

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1964/12/27

Reason Sampled:: For soil biological examination

Description:: Approx 4km S of Mt Rich on an extensive undulating very bouldery moraine land surface formed by over-riding and retreat of ice from Diamond Glacier

Altitude:: 800 m

Aspect:: Nil

Slope:: 0 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	79° 49' S 158° 54' E
Latitude Longitude DD	-79.817 158.900
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.008 0.008
Locality	Victoria Land, Trans-antarctic Mountains; at the southern end of the Cook Mountains in the Brown Hills region of the Darwin Glacier
Survey	USGS 1:250,000 1963; Carlyon Glacier ST 57-60/13*

Climate

Soil climate zone:: Coastal mountain

Estimated mean annual temperature:: -24 °C

Frozen ground depth:: 0 cm

Frozen type:

Frozen comment:

Geology

Geological setting:: Bouldery till derived from Granite Harbour Intrusives is widespread on the surface

Patterned ground:: Moderately developed

Surface weathering or surface features:

Soil

Soil parent material:: Granitic till

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:

Soil moisture status:: Xerous to subxerous; the surface is predominantly snow free; some patches of ice in patterned ground cracks

Biological activity:: Lichens are abundant

Sample Data

Physical Data
Sample name	Depth description	Top (cm)	Base (cm)	Bulk Density	Dry Bulk Density	Gravimetric Moisture	Vol. Moisture (BD=2)
106	0-3cm	0	3

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
106											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
106																not analysed

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