Contortion Spur (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Contortion Spur (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Spur (2f)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The largest and easternmost of three spurs which descend N from Mount Madison near the mouth of Byrd Glacier. The spur exposes a spectacular syncline of white marble and black schist. It was geologically mapped on Dec. 10, 2000, by Edmund Stump of USAP; he suggested the name because of the skewed form of the spur.
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