Ventifact knobs
| Ventifact knobs | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Taylor Valley , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 42 ′ S , 162 ° 35 ′ E | |
The Ventifact Knobs (English for ventifacts Knubbel ) are a group of 3 to 6 m high hills in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Taylor Valley they rise east of Lake Bonney . They are made of hardened and glacial boulders covered clay , numerous ventifacts contains.
The US geologist and glaciologist Troy L. Péwé (1918–1999) explored them in December 1957 and gave them their descriptive name.
Web links
- Ventifact Knobs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ventifact Knobs on geographic.org (English)