Quaternary Icefall (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Quaternary Icefall (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Icefall (12)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A lobe of the Mt Bird icecap falling steeply to the sea from a height of over 600m near the southern end of the ice-free district on the lower slopes of Mt Bird. Geologists of the NZGSAE, 1958-59, who named this feature, found that a contemporary ice-cored end-moraine at a height of 548m on the north side of its upper end contained fragments of marine shells which were apparently ploughed from the floor of McMurdo Sound and deposited high on the side of Mt Bird by an expended glacier of a Quaternary glacial period. The shell fragments are now being carried down the mountain and deposited in end-moraines.
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