Clay Mineral Composition of Glacial Erratics, McMurdo Sound

• Main Author: Holmes, Mary Anne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2000
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; East Antarctica; McMurdo Sound; Miers; Miers Valley; Minna Bluff; Mount Discovery; Brown Peninsula; Black Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/79; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geosciencefacpub/article/1078/viewcontent/Holmes_PBPEERMSEA_2000_Clay_Mineral.pdf

Twenty-two erratics collected from coastal moraines along the shores of Mount Discovery, Brown Peninsula, Minna Bluff, on Black Island, and from the Salmon and Miers valley floors in East Antarctica were examined for their mineral composition in the <2 m fraction by x-ray diffraction to determine...