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Slickenside Face (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Slickenside Face (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
A face on the sheer cliffs of Turks Head in Erebus Bay, on Ross Island in McMurdo Sound. A slickenside is slippery face of a fault, here exposed high up on the cliffs. Named in 1912 by Debenham of the BAE, 1910-13.
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