Crack bluff
| Crack bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 33 ′ S , 158 ° 38 ′ W | |
The Crack Bluff is a 2810 m high and mostly non-iced cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises 13 km southeast of Kutschin Peak .
The name of the cliff goes back to the American geologist Edmund Stump (* 1946) from Arizona State University , who mapped it on December 27, 1970. It is named after a striking sub-horizontal crack with breccias on the steep southwest flank.
Web links
- Crack Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crack Bluff on geographic.org (English)