128

Site number:

128

Authors:

IBC, GGC

Date recorded:

1965/01/14

Reason Sampled:

Salt characterisation

Description:

A salty hollow near Hourglass Lake

Altitude:

650 m

Aspect:

Nil

Slope:

0 °

Climate

Soil climate zone:

Central mountains

Estimated mean annual temperature:

-23 °C

Frozen ground depth:

0 cm

Frozen type:

Frozen comment:

Geology

Geological setting:

Webb Glacier in the upper Barwick Valley has retreated and left a series of till deposits and moraine surfaces of differing ages; the site is on ice-cored moraines mapped by Calkin as Packard Drift (youngest); salts occur at the surface of the soils in numerous small patches in hollows

Patterned ground:

Surface weathering or surface features:

Surface salt efflorescences

Soil

Soil parent material:

Previous disturbance:

Nil

Soil weathering stage:

Soil moisture status:

Xerous to subxerous; the soils are moist in salty depressions

Biological activity:

Nil observed