Mount Bursey

Mount Bursey
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height	2787 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Flood range
Coordinates	76 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 132 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 76 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 132 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W
Type	Shield volcanoes , extinguished

Mount Bursey is a 2787 m high, sweeping and icy mountain in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It forms the eastern end of the Flood Range .

The mountain range of Mount Bursey is made up of two fused shield volcanoes , the Hutt Peak in the east, with 2787 m the highest peak of the mountain range, and the Koerner Bluff ( 2453 m ) in the west. Mount Bursey was formed about 10 million years ago; the volcanic activity held up to the Pleistocene on. The youngest dated rocks are 0.49 million years old.

The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountain based on its own measurements and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1947 after Jacob Bursey (1903–1980), a participant in the Byrd Antarctic Expedition ( 1928-1930) and dog sled driver during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), during which he reached the western end of the Flood Range in December 1940.

Web links

Bursey in the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institution .
Mount Bursey in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
Mount Bursey on geographic.org (English).
Mount Berlin. Topographic map 1: 250,000 with the southern part of Mount Bursey. In: Topographic Reconnaissance Maps (250K). United States Antarctic Resource Center of the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Mount Kosciusko. Topographic map 1: 250,000 with the northern part of Mount Bursey. In: Topographic Reconnaissance Maps (250K). United States Antarctic Resource Center of the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Individual evidence

↑ Fabio Florindo, Martin Siegert (Ed.): Antarctic Climate Evolution (= Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences . Volume 8 ). Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 978-0-444-52847-6 , Chapter 10: Alan M. Haywood et al .: Middle Miocene to Pliocene History of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean , p. 401–463 , doi : 10.1016 / S1571-9197 (08) 00010-4 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).

[1] Fabio Florindo, Martin Siegert (Ed.): Antarctic Climate Evolution (= Developments in Earth and Environmental Sciences . Volume 8 ). Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 978-0-444-52847-6 , Chapter 10: Alan M. Haywood et al .: Middle Miocene to Pliocene History of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean , p. 401–463 , doi : 10.1016 / S1571-9197 (08) 00010-4 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).