ANTARCTIC METEORITE LOCATION AND MAPPING PROJECT (AMLAMP)
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Apparently local ice is stranded and exposed along the southwest flank of the Dominion Range (85º20'S 166º30'E) as fast moving plateau ice of the Beardmore Glacier flows past the range (DOM-Figure 1- 158 KB JPEG). A reconnaissance search made of this area during the 1985-86 season resulted in the discovery of four specimens in the area below Mt. Saunders (Cassidy 1992). A more extensive reconnaissance-style search was undertaken during the 2003-3004 season, resulting in the recovery of 51 meteorites.

DOM70-Figure 1 (113 KB JPEG) is an enlarged portion of the U.S.G.S. 1:250000 scale Plunket Point quadrangle showing the approximate locations of the meteorites recovered in the 1985-1986 season. DOM70-Figure 2 (76 KB JPEG) also shows the approximate locations of these specimens on an oblique air photo looking southwestward from over the crest of the Dominion Range. DOM70-Figure 3 (74 KB JPEG) is an aerial photo mosaic of the area (Mosaic from U.S.G.S. air photos by Nancy Chabot).

DOM70-Table 1 is a tabulation of meteorite types from the Dominion Range Icefield.

Acknowledgments; ANSMET field party members during the 1985-1986 season were William Cassidy, Peter Englert, Twyla Thomas, and Carl Thompson. The 2003-2004 ANSMET team consisted of Nancy Chabot, Monika Kress, Gordon Osinski, and John Schutt

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