Discovery Ridge
| Discovery Ridge | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ohio Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 44 ′ S , 114 ° 6 ′ W | |
Discovery Ridge is a wide and rocky mountain ridge in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains , it extends 3 km northwest of Mount Glossopteris from the Buckeye Table in a northwest direction.
The name was suggested by the American geologist William Ellis Long (* 1930) from Ohio State University , who discovered the first tillite occurrence in Antarctica and for the first time fossils of armpods from the Devonian in two campaigns between 1960 and 1962 . This discovery (English discovery ) gave the mountain ridge its name.
Web links
- Discovery Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Discovery Ridge on geographic.org (English)