Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Overthrust Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Overthrust Bluff (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bluff (2f)
This name originates from Poland. It is part of the Poland Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
An about 800 m high bluff in Mt Inverleith, above Leopard Cove, Paradise Harbour. Name derived from a well visible thrust surface separating the Trinity Peninsula Group metasediments (?Upper Permian-Triassic) from the Antarctic Peninsula Volcanic Group lavas (Lower Cretaceous).
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