GEOLOGISTS - ON THE ROCKS
Me MUR DO SOUND, ANTARTICA -- (NAVNHWS) — Four geologists from Ohio
State University have begun field studies on the world’s southermost
exposed rock, only 200 miles from the South Pole,
The four men were flown to the South Portal of the Robert Scott
Glacier aboard two Navy C-47*s, ]Over, a ten-week period they will carry
out geological investigations in the vicinity of Mounts Weaver and HoWe
in the Queen Maud Mountains, Mt, Weaver'has been visited only once
before, nearly 30 years ago, Man has 'never set foot on Mt. Howe.
Mt, Weaver, rising to a height of about 10,000 feeit, 220 miles from
the South Pole, was discovered during the Byrd Antartic Expedition of
1933-35, Its discovers made a number of significant geological finds,
including several coal seams, various fossils, and petrified tree
trunks up to 18 inches in diameter — remains of trees that grew during
the time of the dinosaurs.
Mt, Howe, which has only been observed from a groat distance, is
actually a group of low connecting ridges and gable-shaped nunataks
rising to about 10.;000 feet in elevation, (A nunatak is a mountain or
hill top protruding above the surface of the surrounding ice mass, )
Located about 15 miles southeast of Mt, Weaver, Mt, Howe is the southern
most exposed rock in the world. Every bit of earth south of the mountain
is blanketed by an icecap at least a mile thick,
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Two motor toboggans will be used for transportation by the OSU
group in the field, and a semi-cylindrical, insulated canvas hut known
as a JAMESWAY will provide primary shelter* Small tents will be used
at temporary camps*