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47 relations: A. E. Trueman, Alexander du Toit, Alfred Wegener, Arête, Arthur Holmes, Charles Lapworth, Cirque, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Cornwall Glacier (Coats Land), Crossover Pass, Detritus (geology), Gideon Mantell, Glen Glacier, Gneiss, Herbert Harold Read, Hisashi Kuno, Holmes Hills, Holmes Summit, Iguanodon, John Flett (geologist), John Strachey (geologist), Mawson (continent), Metamorphic rock, Metamorphism, Migmatite, Nunatak, Ordovician, Paleoproterozoic, Paul Niggli, Peneplain, Pentti Eskola, Pioneers Escarpment, Precambrian, Read Mountains, Recovery Glacier, Roderick Murchison, Schist, Scree, Shackleton Range, Shotton Snowfield, Slate, Stephenson Bastion, Tectonics, University of Birmingham, Victor Goldschmidt, William Nicol (geologist), William Whitehead Watts.
- Mountain ranges of Coats Land
A. E. Trueman
Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman (26 April 1894 – 5 January 1956) was a British geologist.
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Alexander du Toit
Alexander Logie du Toit FRS (14 March 1878 – 25 February 1948) was a geologist from South Africa and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.
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Alfred Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.
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Arête
An arête is a narrow ridge of rock that separates two valleys.
Arthur Holmes
Arthur Holmes (14 January 1890 – 20 September 1965) was an English geologist who made two major contributions to the understanding of geology.
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Charles Lapworth
Charles Lapworth FRS FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was a headteacher and an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.
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Cirque
A (from the Latin word) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole.
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Cornwall Glacier (Coats Land)
Cornwall Glacier is a glacier long, flowing south from Crossover Pass in the Shackleton Range to join Recovery Glacier east of Ram Bow Bluff.
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Crossover Pass
Crossover Pass is a pass between Gordon Glacier and Cornwall Glacier in the central part of the Shackleton Range in Antarctica.
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Detritus (geology)
Detritus (adj. detrital) is particles of rock derived from pre-existing rock through weathering and erosion.
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Gideon Mantell
Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist.
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Glen Glacier
Glen Glacier is a glacier at least long, flowing south in the Shackleton Range of Antarctica to join Recovery Glacier to the west of the Read Mountains.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.
Herbert Harold Read
Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970) was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College.
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Hisashi Kuno
was professor at the Institute of Geology, University of Tokyo.
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Holmes Hills
The Holmes Hills are a group of ridges and nunataks rising to about between Runcorn Glacier and Beaumont Glacier, bounded to the southwest by the Brennecke Nunataks, in south-central Palmer Land, Antarctica.
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Holmes Summit
Holmes Summit is a peak rising to, the highest elevation in the Read Mountains of the Shackleton Range in Antarctica.
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Iguanodon
Iguanodon (meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur.
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John Flett (geologist)
Sir John Smith Flett (26 June 1869 – 26 January 1947) was a Scottish physician and geologist.
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John Strachey (geologist)
John Strachey FRS (10 May 1671 – 11 June 1743) was a British geologist and topographer.
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Mawson (continent)
The Mawson Continent (or Mawson Block, Mawson Craton) was a continent that may have formed around about 1730 Ma (1,730 million years ago).
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
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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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Nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Paleoproterozoic
The Paleoproterozoic Era (also spelled Palaeoproterozoic) is the first of the three sub-divisions (eras) of the Proterozoic eon, and also the longest era of the Earth's geological history, spanning from (2.5–1.6 Ga).
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Paul Niggli
Paul Niggli (26 June 1888 – 13 January 1953) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and petrologist who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography.
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Peneplain
In geomorphology and geology, a peneplain is a low-relief plain formed by protracted erosion.
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Pentti Eskola
Pentti Elias Eskola (8 January 1883 – 6 December 1964) was a Finnish geologist who specialised in the petrology of granites and developed the concept of metamorphic facies.
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Pioneers Escarpment
Pioneers Escarpment is a mostly snow-covered north-facing escarpment in Antarctica, interrupted by occasional bluffs and spurs, between Slessor Glacier on the north and Shotton Snowfield on the south, in the Shackleton Range.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Read Mountains
Read Mountains is a group of rocky summits, the highest being Holmes Summit at, lying east of Glen Glacier in the south-central part of the Shackleton Range. Read Mountains and Read Mountains are mountain ranges of Coats Land.
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Recovery Glacier
The Recovery Glacier is a glacier, at least long and wide at its mouth, flowing west along the southern side of the Shackleton Range in Antarctica.
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Roderick Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871.
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Schist
Schist is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity.
Scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall.
Shackleton Range
The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica that rises to and extends in an east–west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery Glaciers. Read Mountains and Shackleton Range are mountain ranges of Coats Land.
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Shotton Snowfield
Shotton Snowfield is a large snowfield between Herbert Mountains and Pioneers Escarpment on the north and Read Mountains on the south, in the Shackleton Range of Antarctica.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.
Stephenson Bastion
Stephenson Bastion is a mountain massif with steep rock cliffs on its south side, rising to in the south-central part of the Shackleton Range.
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Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
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University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university in Birmingham, England.
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Victor Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (27 January 1888 – 20 March 1947) was a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.
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William Nicol (geologist)
William Nicol FRSE FCS (1768?2 September 1851) was a Scottish geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828.
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William Whitehead Watts
Prof William Whitehead Watts FRS HFRSE FGS FMS LLD (7 June 1860 – 30 July 1947) was a British geologist.
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See also
Mountain ranges of Coats Land
References
Also known as Arkell Cirque, Bowen Cirque, Eskola Cirque, Flett Crags, Goldschmidt Cirque, Kuno Cirque, Lapworth Cirque, Mantell Screes, Mount Wegener, Murchison Cirque, Niggli Nunataks, Strachey Stump.