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Site Information

Site number:: 99

Authors:: IBC, GGC

Date recorded:: 1964/12/24

Reason Sampled:: Salt characterisation

Description:: Approx 5km NE of Bastion Hill; a dolerite outcrop on a ridge with a salty soil

Altitude:: 750 m

Aspect:: Nil

Slope:: 0 °

Location Data
Observer	IBC
GPS	No
Latitude Longitude DMS	79° 48' S 158° 30' E
Latitude Longitude DD	-79.800 158.50
Latitude longitude precision DD	0.008 0.08
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:: -23 °C

Frozen ground depth:: 0 cm

Frozen type:

Frozen comment:

Geology

Geological setting:: A sill of Ferrar Dolerite outcrops on a ridge overlooking Touchdown Glacier

Patterned ground:: Nil

Surface weathering or surface features:: Moderately oxidised and stained surface rocks with some salt patches

Soil

Soil parent material:: Fragmented dolerite

Previous disturbance:: Nil

Soil weathering stage:

Soil moisture status:: Xerous to subxerous

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)
99

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
99	not relevant										PartSize : not relevant

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

National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name	NSA Sample Id	Container type	Fraction type
99	M22/0785	White lid small	Coarse
99	M22/6876	Glass vial metal lid

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