The Clark Mountains () are a group of low mountains rising above located in the
Ford Ranges
The Ford Ranges () are a grouping of mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on December 5, 1929, they were named by Byrd ...
,
Marie Byrd Land,
Antarctica
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. They are about east of the
Allegheny Mountains
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in
Antarctica
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. They were discovered and photographed on aerial flights in 1940 by the
US Antarctic Service and named for
Clark University
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in the ...
in
Worcester, Massachusetts
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.
Features
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Kelly Nunataks
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Mount Atwood
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Mount Burnham
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Mount Ekblaw
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Mount Jones
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Mount Maglione
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Mount Van Valkenburg
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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