The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the
Ford Ranges,
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...
,
Antarctica. They are about east of the
Allegheny Mountains in
Antarctica. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in 1940 by the
US Antarctic Service
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 presence in the A ...
and named for
Clark University in
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Features
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Kelly Nunataks
The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They are about east of the Allegheny Mountains in Antarctica. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in ...
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Mesquite Valley
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Mount Atwood
The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They are about east of the Allegheny Mountains in Antarctica. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in ...
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Mount Burnham
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Mount Ekblaw
Mount Ekblaw () is a mountain, high, standing east of Mount Van Valkenburg in the eastern part of the Clark Mountains in Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered on aerial flights from the West Base of the United States Antarctic Service in 1940 and ...
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Mount Jones
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Mount Maglione
Mount Maglione () is a low mountain northeast of Mount Ekblaw in the Clark Mountains of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and was named by the Advis ...
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Mount Van Valkenburg
The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They are about east of the Allegheny Mountains in Antarctica. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in ...
Further reading
* Sugden, David. (2003).
Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica'
* C.J. ADAMS, D. SEWARD and S.D. WEAVER,
Geochronology of Cretaceous granites and metasedimentary basement on Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica', Antarctic Science 7 (3): 265-277 (1995)
* C.J. Adams (1987),
Geochronology of granite terranes in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 30:1, 51–72, DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1987.10422193
* GEORGE A DOUMANI; ERNEST G EHLERS,
Petrography of Rocks from Mountains in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica', GSA Bulletin (1962) 73 (7): 877–882. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1962)73
77:PORFMI.0.CO;2
* International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences 5th : 1987,
Geological Evolution of Antarctica', Cambridge, England
External links
Clark Mountains
* [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=123589 Clark Mountains
* [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/search_names_action.cfm?search_text=2719&feature_type_code=0&country_id=0&relic_options=include_relics&north=-45.0&south=-90.0&west=-180.0&east=180.0&search_near=&radius=0.5&gazetteers=SCAR Clark Mountains
References
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Ford Ranges
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