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Scott Glacier Icefield
The Scott Glacier is a large outlet glacier transecting the Transantarctic Mountains and draining the East Antarctic Icesheet. A sizable bare ice area, unofficially named the Scott Glacier Icefield, (87°02'S 148°00' W) is situated along the eastern margin of the active flow, south of Gardner Ridge. The flow is apparently arrested as ice streaming from the southeast meets the main flow of the Scott Glacier. No bedrock exposures or moraines are present in the vicinity of the bare ice patch. The area is covered by the 1:250000 scale U.S.G.S. D'Angelo Bluff and Mount Blackburn quadrangles. SCO56-Figure 1 (32 KB JPEG) is an oblique airphoto looking southwest over Gardner Ridge towards Mt. Howe. The Scott Glacier Icefield is in the middle ground.
During the 1998-1999 field season an ANSMET field party made a single reconnaissance sweep across the icefield. Three widely scattered meteorite specimens were recovered. During the 2006-2007 season ANSMET returned for a more detailed assessment of the meteorite potential of the icefield. Several days were spent covering the icefield as best as conditions and time allowed. A total of 34 additional meteorite specimens were found and collected.
Table SCO56-1 is a tabulation of the meteorite types recovered from the Scott Glacier Icefield.
Acknowledgments; The ANSMET field party consisted of Paul Benoit, Nancy Chabot, Diane Dimassa, Ralph Harvey, Barry Lopez, and John Schutt. The 2006-2007 team included Lysa Chizmadia, Barbra Cohen, Silvio Lorenzetti, and John Schutt.
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