Belemnite Point () is the eastern extremity of a mainly ice-free, hook-shaped ridge, midway between Lamina Peak and

Ablation Point Ablation Point, also known as Punta Ablación, is the eastern extremity of a hook-shaped rock ridge marking the north side of the entrance to Ablation Valley, on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first photographed from the air ...

and inland from

George VI Sound George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/ fault depression, 300 miles (483 km) long and mainly covered by a permanent ice shelf. It ...

on the east coast of

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

. It was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by

Lincoln Ellsworth Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was a polar explorer from the United States and a major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History. Biography Lincoln Ellsworth was born on May 12, 1880, to James Ellsworth and Eva F ...

and mapped from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg. Roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition and resurveyed in 1949 by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic o ...

(FIDS), it was so named by FIDS because of

belemnite Belemnitida (or the belemnite) is an extinct order of squid-like cephalopods that existed from the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous. Unlike squid, belemnites had an internal skeleton that made up the cone. The parts are, from the arms-most ...

fossils found in the

outcropping An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth. Features Outcrops do not cover the majority of the Earth's land surface because in most places the bedrock or superficial ...

marine strata.Stewart, J., 2011. ''Antarctica: An Encyclopedia,'' 2nd ed. Jefferson, North Carolina and London, McFarland & Company, Inc. 1771 pp. At Belemnite Point, which lies to the north of Ablation Point, a -long cliff exposes thickness of the lower part of the Himalia Foration and the at least the of the upper part of the underlying Ablation Point Formation. The Ablation Point Formation at Belemnite Point consists predominantly of slump-folded and rafted blocks of turbidite sandstone interbedded with chaotic, mudstone-rich matrix. Deformation within the Ablation Point Formation varies from well-mixed sediment to coherently offset and imbricated slide sheets often bounded by well-defined low-angle faultsMacdonald, D.I., Moncrieff, A.C. and Butterworth, P.J., 1993. ''Giant slide deposits from a Mesozoic fore-arc basin, Alexander Island, Antarctica.'' ''Geology'', 21(11), pp.1047-1050.Butterworth, P., Macdonald, D., 2007. ''Channel-levee complexes of the Fossils Bluff Group, Antarctica'', In Nilson, T., Shew, R., Steffens, G., and Studlick, J., eds, pp. 36–41, ''AAPG Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops.'' ''American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publications'', 56. Tulsa, Oklahoma, SEPM. 504 pp.

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Paleontological sites of Antarctica Headlands of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub

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