Turbidite Hill
| Turbidite Hill | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The turbidites Hill is a hill in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 6 km east of the Laird Plateau on the north side of the Olson Firnfield .
The team of a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition to the Holyoake Range , Cobham Range and Queen Elizabeth Range , which was carried out from 1964 to 1965, named it after the turbidite in sandstone layers of the so-called Beacon Supergroup , of which the hill consists in parts.
Web links
- Turbidite Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turbidite Hill on geographic.org (English)