Reilly Ridge () is a prominent rock ridge about 7 nautical miles (13 km) long on the northeast side of
Lanterman Range
The Lanterman Range () is a mountain range about long and wide, forming the southwest part of the Bowers Mountains in Antarctica.
It is bounded by the Rennick Glacier, Sledgers Glacier, Black Glacier and Canham Glacier.
Exploration and namin ...
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Bowers Mountains
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Bowers Mountains () is a group of north–south trending mountains in Antarctica, about 145 km (90 mi) long and 56 km (35 mi) wide, bounded by the coast on the north and by the Rennick, Canham, Black and Lillie gla ...
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Antarctica. The ridge descends from the heights just east of
Mount Bernstein
The Lanterman Range () is a mountain range about long and wide, forming the southwest part of the Bowers Mountains in Antarctica.
It is bounded by the Rennick Glacier, Sledgers Glacier, Black Glacier and Canham Glacier.
Exploration and namin ...
and forms a part of the southwest wall of
Sledgers Glacier. Mapped by
United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and
U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–62. Named by
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.
History
The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) for Commander Joseph L. Reilly, U.S. Navy, officer in charge of the winter support party at
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...
. 1964.
[Stewart, J., 2011. ''Antarctica: An Encyclopedia,'' 2nd ed. Jefferson, North Carolina and London, McFarland & Company, Inc. 1771 pp. ]
Reilly Ridge consists of pervasively folded, faulted, and otherwise deformed Cambrian sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of the Glasgow, Molar, Spurs, and Reilly Formations. Despite the degree of tectonic deformation of these strata, identifiable Middle and Late Cambrian fossils, including numerous species of trilobites, have been found in exposures of Molar and Spurs Formation on Reilly Ridge.
[Jago, J.B. and Cooper, R.A., 2007. ''Middle Cambrian trilobites from Reilly Ridge, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.'' ''Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists'', 34, pp.473-487.] Given that early Paleozoic strata of Victoria Land are typically lacking in identifable fossils, fossils from Reilly Ridge have been essential to the processes of reconstructing regional prehistoric paleoenvironments, correlating strata, and understanding ancient plate movements in Antarctica.
[Jago, J.B., Bentley, C.J. and Cooper, R.A., 2019. ''Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Bowers back-arc basin, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica—A review.'' ''Palaeoworld'', 28(3), pp.276-288.]
See also
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Centropleura Spur
Centropleura Spur () is the southwest spur of a small massif enclosing a cirque, located at the head of Carryer Glacier, northeast of Mount Jamroga, in the Bowers Mountains, a major mountain range lying within Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geogr ...
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Eureka Spurs The Eureka Spurs () are several rock spurs exposed along the east side of the head of Mariner Glacier, southwest of Mount McCarthy, in Victoria Land. They were so named, after the ancient Greek word eureka, by the Victoria University of Wellington ...
References
Further reading
* Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing,
The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water', P 120
* Edmund Stump,
The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains', PP 58 - 60
External links
Reilly Ridgeon
AADC website
Reilly Ridgeon
SCAR website
Reilly Ridge updated weather forecast
Paleontological sites of Antarctica
Ridges of Victoria Land
Pennell Coast
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