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Site Information
- Site number:
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99
- Authors:
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IBC, GGC
- Date recorded:
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1964/12/24
- Reason Sampled:
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Salt characterisation
- Description:
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Approx 5km NE of Bastion Hill; a dolerite outcrop on a ridge with a salty soil
- Altitude:
- 750 m
- Aspect:
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Nil
- Slope:
- 0 °
Location Data
Observer |
IBC |
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GPS |
No |
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Latitude Longitude DMS |
79° 48' S 158° 30' E |
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Latitude Longitude DD |
-79.800 158.50 |
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Latitude longitude precision DD |
0.008 0.08 |
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Locality |
Victoria Land, Trans-antarctic Mountains; at the southern end of the Cook Mountains in the Brown Hills region of the Darwin Glacier |
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Survey |
USGS 1:250,000 1963; Carlyon Glacier ST 57-60/13* |
Climate
- Soil climate zone:
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Coastal mountain
- Estimated mean annual temperature:
- -23
°C
- Frozen ground depth:
- 0 cm
- Frozen type:
-
- Frozen comment:
-
Geology
- Geological setting:
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A sill of Ferrar Dolerite outcrops on a ridge overlooking Touchdown Glacier
- Patterned ground:
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Nil
- Surface weathering or surface features:
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Moderately oxidised and stained surface rocks with some salt patches
Soil
- Soil parent material:
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Fragmented dolerite
- Previous disturbance:
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Nil
- Soil weathering stage:
- 6
- Soil moisture status:
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Xerous to subxerous
- 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) |
99
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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 |
99
| not relevant
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| PartSize : not relevant
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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 |
99
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not relevant
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National Soil Archive Samples
Sample name | NSA Sample Id | Container type | Fraction type |
99
|
M22/0785
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White lid small
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Coarse
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99
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M22/6876
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Glass vial metal lid
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Photos
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