USNC-IGY Antarctic Glaciological Data Field Work 1958 and 1959 (Preliminary Report on the Bedrock Geology of the Windmill Islands)

• Main Authors: Goldthwait, Richard P., Robertson, Richard
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Research Foundation, The Ohio State University. 1959
• Subjects: Bedrock geology > Windmill Islands; Antarctica; Windmill Islands; Antarctic; Bunger Hills; George V Land; Goldthwait; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/53685

Submitted by Richard P. Goldthwait to the U.S. National Committee for the IGY, National Academy of Sciences in partial fulfillment of IGY Project No. 4.10, NSF Grant No. Y/4.10/285. The preliminary report is based on field observations made during 1958, and on the hand specimen identification of samples at The Ohio State University Research Foundation. The author, Richard Robertson, was a glaciologist with the wintering-over group at Wilkes IGY Station (66°15’S, 110°31’E) which is on the Antarctic coast in the Windmill Islands, south of Perth, Australia. This group of islands is probably the most extensive rock exposure between the Bunger Hills, 250 miles to the west, and King George V Land, 1000 miles to the east. The islands are contained in a rectangle 32 miles long and 9 miles wide, with the long side being in a northerly direction. National Science Foundation Grant No. Y/4.10/285.