Moulton Escarpment
| Moulton Escarpment | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Thiel Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 10 ′ S , 94 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Moulton Escarpment is an approximately 13 km long step of rock and ice in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It is located around 16 km west of the Ford Massif , where it forms the western shoulder of the Thiel Mountains .
It was geodetically surveyed by the United States Geological Survey in 1960 and 1961. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Kendall N. Moulton (1917-2000) from the Department of Polar Research of the National Science Foundation , who commissioned the Foundation took part in numerous trips to the Antarctic between 1958 and 1977.
Web links
- Moulton Escarpment in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moulton Escarpment on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1069 (English).