Miscast nunatakker
| Miscast nunatakker | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 30 ′ S , 159 ° 9 ′ E | |
The Miscast Nunatakker (from English miscast ' miscast ' ) are a group of four Nunatakkern on the Shackleton coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They tower up to 910 m high on the southern flank of the Byrd Glacier between Mount Tadpole and Mount Madison in the Churchill Mountains .
Participants in a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition that lasted from 1960 to 1961 named it a Dick Formation and characterized it as a clastic sandstone formation. Recent studies by the US geologist Edmund Stump (* 1946) from Arizona State University as part of the United States Antarctic Program in the years 2000 to 2001, however, showed that the nunatakker consist of so-called Shackleton Limestone , a limestone typical of Antarctica . The incorrect characterization carried out by the New Zealanders led to a renaming.
Web links
- Miscast nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Miscast Nunataks on geographic.org (English).