Ledge Museum
| Ledge Museum | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 45 ′ S , 113 ° 48 ′ W | |
The Museum Ledge ( English for museum ledge ) is a step in the terrain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land consisting of a flat, heavily eroded sandstone bed . It lies on the southwest shoulder of Mount Glossopteris in the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains .
In this 25 m long and 9 to 12 m wide area, the geologist William Ellis Long (* 1930) from Ohio State University found tree fossils during two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1960 and 1962 . Long's naming of the terrain level is an allegorical allusion to these finds.
Web links
- Museum Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Museum Ledge on geographic.org (English)