Dike Cirque
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 Topographic map sheet with the Miller Range (top left) and Dike Cirque |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Miller Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 83 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dike Cirque is a 1.5 km wide, semicircular and glacial mountain basin in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is located in the Macdonald Bluffs at the southeast base of Kreiling Mesa in the Miller Range .
A geological team from Ohio State University , who worked in the area from 1967 to 1968, named the basin after the dikes in the adjacent cliffs.
Web links
- Dike Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dike Cirque on geographic.org (English)