Centropleura track
| Centropleura track | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 17 ′ S , 163 ° 11 ′ E | |
Centropleura Spur is a mountain ridge in Victoria Land, East Antarctica . In the Bowers Mountains , he stands out as southwestern extension of a massif and surrounding 5km north-east of Mount Jamroga at the head of Carryer Glacier a mountain basin .
In the years from 1974 to 1975 and from 1981 to 1982 scientists discovered Cambrian fossils of trilobites of the genus Centropleura in the sediments of this formation , which gave the mountain ridge its name.
Web links
- Centropleura trace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Centropleura Spur on geographic.org (English)