Quartz Pebble Hill
| Quartz Pebble Hill | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ohio Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 113 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Quartz Pebble Hill (English for quartz pebble hill is) a hill with a flattened summit in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises from the northern step of the Buckeye Table in the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains , where this step meets the Discovery Ridge .
The hill was named at the suggestion of geologist William Ellis Long (* 1930) from Ohio State University , who was active in this area in two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1960 and 1962.
Web links
- Quartz Pebble Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quartz Pebble Hill on geographic.org (English)