Sierre's bluff
| Sierre's bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Mesa Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 13 ′ S , 162 ° 40 ′ E | |
| rock | basalt | |
The Siders Bluff is a massive cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the north-western end of Tobin Mesa in the Mesa Range and consists mainly of basalt from the Jura .
Geological field research teams from Ohio State University examined the cliff in two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1981 and 1983. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1982, together with the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee, after the geologist Mary A. Siders, who participated in the research was.
Web links
- Siders Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Siders Bluff on geographic.org (English)