Conglomerate Ridge
| Conglomerate Ridge | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 84 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ W | |
Conglomerate Ridge is a 1.5 km long and up to 1650 m high mountain range in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises in a northwest-southeast orientation 6 km east-southeast of Mount Bursik in the Soholt Peaks .
Gerald F. Webers, leader of the 1979 to 1980 expedition to the Ellsworth Mountains as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program, named him after the rock conglomerate that makes up the ridge.
Web links
- Conglomerate Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Conglomerate Ridge on geographic.org (English).