Speden Bench
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| location | White Island , Ross Archipelago | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 1 ′ S , 167 ° 24 ′ E | |
The Speden Bench is a 45 m high level on White Island in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It is 1.5 km south of Cape Spencer-Smith , the northern tip of the island. It consists of the most northwestern moraine-covered protrusions of volcanic rock on the island, to which conglomerates of tuff and scallops are added, as they can also be found on Scallop Hill on Black Island .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the plain in 1999 after Ian Gordon Speden (* 1934) from the New Zealand Geological Survey , who discovered fossils here together with Alan Copland Beck on December 22, 1958 .
Web links
- Speden Bench in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Speden Bench on geographic.org (English)