Pebbly Mudstone Island
| Pebbly Mudstone Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Duroch Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 19 ′ S , 57 ° 51 ′ W | |
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Pebbly Mudstone Island is a small island off the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the southeastern part of the group of Duroch Islands , it is 500 m southwest of Halpern Point .
The Canadian geologist Martin Halpern (* 1937) from the University of Wisconsin made the designation during the course of surveying the area around the island between 1961 and 1962. Name derives from the outcropping there clastic sedimentary rock , which in English as pebbly mudstone ( English for matrix- based conglomerate is called).
Web links
- Pebbly mudstone Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pebbly Mudstone Island on geographic.org (English)