Graves Nunataks (86º43'S 141º30'W) are a series of small bedrock exposures along an ice escarpment situated between the Scott Glacier and the Reedy Glaciers and extending eastward from the LaGorce Mountains. GRA50-51-Figure 1 (54 KB JPEG) is a scanned portion from the U.S.G.S 1:250000 scale Mt. Blackburn quadrangle of the Graves Nunataks area. Extensive bare ice is present above and below the escarpment and extending for over 20 kilometers along the southwest-northeast trending escarpment. GRA50-Figure 1 (43 KB JPEG) is an oblique air photo of the area from the south.

An ANSMET reconnaissance team spent several days at Graves Nunataks during the 1995-1996 season. A total of 33 specimens were recovered during that time.  In 1998 a larger field team began systematic searching, which resulted in the recovery of 172 meteorites from around Graves Nunataks. At the Graves Nunatak icefield most of the meteorite specimens were found below the escarpment and near the moraine extending north of the nunataks.

GRA50-Table 1 is a tabulation of meteorite types from the icefields around Graves Nunataks.

Acknowledgments; Ralph Harvey, Pascal Lee, Anders Meibom, and John Schutt were involved with the reconnaissance searches during the 1995-1996 season.  Paul Benoit, Nancy Chabot, Diane Dimassa, Barry Lopez, Scott Sandford, and John Schutt made up the 1998-1999 field party.

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