Fission Wall
| Fission Wall | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 52 ′ S , 155 ° 12 ′ W | |
The Fission Wall is a 1,400 m high cliff of granite in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains , it rises on the northern flank of Mount Griffith .
A team of geologists of the United States Antarctic Program to Edmund Stump (born 1946) from the Arizona State University ascended the cliff on 16 November 1987. They collected rock samples for fission track dating ( English Fission Track Dating ) what the granite wall helped to her name.
Web links
- Fission Wall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fission Wall on geographic.org (English)