Slipfaceless 'whaleback' dunes in a polar desert, Victoria Valley, Antarctica: Insights from ground penetrating radar

• Published in: Geomorphology
• Main Authors: Bristow, Charlie S., Jol, H.M., Augustinus, P., Wallis, I.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: Earth and Planetary Sciences; McMurdo Dry Valleys; McMurdo Sound; The Whaleback; Victoria Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; polar desert; Polar Ice Cap
• Online Access: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/1740/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.08.001

The Lower Victoria Valley is one of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, and has the largest concentration of aeolian sand dunes on the continent. Aeolian bedforms include elongate slipfaceless dunes which have been called ‘whaleback’ dunes. These dunes are composed of coarse sand and capped by gran...