Boyd Ridge
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 Topographic map of the Crary Mountains with Boyd Ridge (1: 250,000) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Crary Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 57 ′ S , 116 ° 57 ′ W | |
| Type | Shield volcano , extinct | |
Boyd Ridge is a 35 km long, up to a height of 2375 m towering mountain ridge with east-west orientation in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It is located at the southern end of the Crary Mountains and is separated from the main peaks of these mountains by the Campbell Valley .
Like all mountains in the Crary Mountains, the ridge is of volcanic origin. It was formed around 2.5 million years ago, making it the youngest elevation in this mountain range.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using the United States Navy's own measurements and aerial photographs from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the ridge after John C. Boyd, biologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program on the McMurdo- Station from 1965 to 1966 and from 1966 to 1967.
Web links
- Boyd Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boyd Ridge on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt S. Panter et al .: Geochemistry of Late Cenozoic basalts from the Crary Mountains: characterization of mantle sources in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica . In: Chemical Geology . tape 165 , no. 3-4 , April 2000, ISSN 0009-2541 , pp. 215–241 , doi : 10.1016 / S0009-2541 (99) 00171-0 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net ).