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Migmatite at Maigetter Peak
The Fosdick Mountains (76°32′S 144°45′W / 76.533°S 144.750°W) are an east–west trending mountain range with marked serrate outlines, standing along the south side of Balchen Glacier at the head of Block Bay, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Raymond B. Fosdick, who became president of the Rockefeller Foundation.[1]
See also
- Demas Bluff
- Mount Bitgood
- Mount Getz
Further reading
• F. J. Korhonen, S. Saito, M. Brown, C. S. Siddoway, J. M. D. Day, Multiple Generations of Granite in the Fosdick Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Implications for Polyphase Intracrustal Differentiation in a Continental Margin Setting, Journal of Petrology, Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2010, Pages 627–670, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egp0939
• Wilbanks, John Randall, Geology of the Fosdick Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, http://hdl.handle.net/2346/58993
• CLARENCE N. FENNER, Olivine fourchites from Raymond Fosdick Mountains, Antarctica, GSA Bulletin (1938) 49 (3): 367–400. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-49-367
• Smith, Christine Helen, Cordierite gneisses and high temperature metamorphisms in the Fosdick Mountains, west Antarctica, with implications for breakup processes in the Pacific sector of the Mesozoic Gondwana margin, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Richard, S. M., Smith, C. H., Kimbrough, D. L., Fitzgerald, P. G., Luyendyk, B. P., & McWilliams, M. O. (1994), Cooling history of the northern Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Tectonics, 13(4), 837-857
External links
- Fosdick Mountains on USGS website
- Fosdick Mountains on SCAR website
- Fosdick Mountains geological map
- Fosdick Mountains satellite image
References
- ^ "Fosdick Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Fosdick Mountains". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)