Cooper snow field
| Cooper snow field | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| surface | 40 km² | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cooper Snowfield is a 40 km² snowfield in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it is circled at 1200 m by Mount Bevin , Mount Field , Mount Durnford and Mount Liard .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the snowfield in 2003 after the geophysicist Alan K. Cooper of the United States Geological Survey , who carried out drilling studies and seismic surveys on the paleoclimatology and history of the ice sheet on the Antarctic continental margin between 1984 and 2002 .
Web links
- Cooper Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cooper Snowfield on geographic.org (English)