Fosdick Mountains

The Fosdick Mountains are an east–west trending mountain range with marked serrate outlines, standing along the south side of Balchen Glacier at the head of Block Bay, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. ^[1]

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1. 25 relations: Adolph Ochs, Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctica, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Block Bay, Bruce P. Luyendyk, Cretaceous, Ford Ranges, Gneiss, Granite, Guest Peninsula, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, Marie Byrd Land, Metamorphism, Migmatite, Pleistocene, Raymond B. Fosdick, Richard E. Byrd, Rockefeller Foundation, Ross Embayment, Ross Sea, Sulzberger Ice Shelf, United States Antarctic Program, United States Geological Survey, University of California, Santa Barbara.

2. Ford Ranges
3. Mountains of Marie Byrd Land

Adolph Ochs

Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 – April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times, which is now the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

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Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891December 11, 1968) was publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961.

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Block Bay

Block Bay is a long ice-filled bay lying east of Guest Peninsula along the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

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Bruce P. Luyendyk

Bruce Peter Luyendyk (born 1943) is an American geophysicist and oceanographer, currently professor emeritus of marine geophysics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Ford Ranges

The Ford Ranges are a collection of mountain groups and ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

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Gneiss

Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Guest Peninsula

The Guest Peninsula is a snow-covered peninsula about long between the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay, in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

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Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger

Iphigene Bertha Ochs Sulzberger (September 19, 1892 – February 26, 1990) was an American heiress, socialite, newspaper executive, philanthropist and former owner of The New York Times.

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Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica.

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Metamorphism

Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.

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Migmatite

Migmatite is a composite rock found in medium and high-grade metamorphic environments, commonly within Precambrian cratonic blocks.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Raymond B. Fosdick

Raymond Blaine Fosdick (9 June 1883 - 19 July 1972) was an American lawyer, public administrator and author.

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Richard E. Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Ross Embayment

The Ross Embayment is a large region of Antarctica, comprising the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea, that lies between East and West Antarctica.

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Ross Sea

The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth.

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Sulzberger Ice Shelf

Sulzberger Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about long and wide bordering the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Edward VII Peninsula and Guest Peninsula in Antarctica.

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United States Antarctic Program

The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the Antarctica continent.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.

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See also

Ford Ranges

• Allegheny Mountains (Antarctica)
• Clark Mountains
• Denfeld Mountains
• Ford Ranges
• Fosdick Mountains
• Haines Mountains
• Mackay Mountains
• Mount Iphigene
• Phillips Mountains
• Sarnoff Mountains
• The Billboard

Mountains of Marie Byrd Land

• Asher Peak
• Coulter Heights
• Fosdick Mountains
• Heathcock Peak
• Magsig Rampart
• McDonald Heights
• Metavolcanic Mountain
• Mount Carmer
• Mount Chapman (Antarctica)
• Mount Giles (Antarctica)
• Mount Gilmour
• Mount Howe
• Mount Iphigene
• Mount Luyendyk
• Mount Morgan (Antarctica)
• Mount Obiglio
• Mount Paterson (Antarctica)
• Mount Rees (Marie Byrd Land)
• Pastor Peak
• Phillips Mountains
• Prahl Crags
• Putzke Peak
• Tapley Mountains

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosdick_Mountains

Also known as Bird Bluff, Demas Bluff, Marujupu Peak, Mount Avers, Mount Bitgood, Mount Colombo, Mount Ferranto, Mount Getz, Mount Lockhart, Mount Perkins, Mount Richardson (Antarctica), Mutel, Mutel Peak, Recess Nunatak, Reece Pass, Vulcan Nunatak.

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