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Glacial Geologic Investigation of Upper Rennick Glacier Region, Northern Victoria Land Paul Andrew Mayewski University of Maine, Paul.Mayewski@Maine.Edu The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Earth Science Faculty Scholarship Earth Sciences 7-1975 Glacial Geologic Investigation of Upper Rennick Glacier Region, Northern Victoria Land Paul Andrew Mayewski University of Maine, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ers_facpub Part of the Glaciology Commons, and the Hydrology Commons Repository Citation Mayewski, Paul Andrew, "Glacial Geologic Investigation of Upper Rennick Glacier Region, Northern Victoria Land" (1975). Earth Science Faculty Scholarship. 210. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ers_facpub/210 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Earth Science Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Denton, G. H., and R 1. Armstrong. 1968. Glacial geology The Rennick Glacier region was chosen because ' and chronology of the McMurdo Sound region. Antarctic (1) air photo inspection and flight reconnaissance Journal of the U.S., III(4): 99-101. Denton, G. H., R. 1. Armstrong, and M. Stuiver. 1970. Late indicated that the area provides the best inland ex- ' Cenozoic glaciation in Antarctica: the record in the McMurdo posure of glacial deposits in northern Victoria Sound region. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., V(I): 15-21. Land, (2) Rennick Glacier is the largest outlet gla­ Denton, G. H., R 1. Armstrong, and' M. Stuiver. 1971. Late cier in northern Victoria Land and as such could Cenozoic glacial history of Antarctica. In: Late Cenozoic Gla­ cialAges (K. K. Turekian, editor). New Haven, Yale University record the glacial history of several interconnected Press. 267-306. ice masses, namely the east antarctic ice sheet, the Hollin, J. T. 1962. On the glacial history of Antarctica. J ournal Evans Neve, Gressitt Glacier, and Canham Glacier, of Glaciology, 4: 173-195. and (3) unlike outlet glaciers farther south along Katz, H. R , and B. C. Waterhouse. 1970. Geologic situation at the Transantarctic Mountains it drains into the O'Brien Peak, Queen Maud Range, Antarctica. N.Z. Journal . of Geology and Geophysics, 13: 1038-1049. open ocean and not into the Ross Sea. Drainage Mayewski, P. A. 1973. Glacial geology and late Cenozoic his­ into the lopen ocean allows Rennick Glacier to ,re­ tory of the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Ph.D. dis­ spond directly to east antarctic ice thickness changes sertation. Columbus, The Ohio State University. 216p. and to sea level changes. Rennick Glacier also pro­ Mercer, J. H. 1968. Glacial geology of the Reedy Glacier area, Antarctica. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 79: 471- vides a potentially wide avenue for the inland trans­ 485. port of moisture at times when the ocean is ice-free. Mercer, J. H. 1972. Some observations on the glacial geology Fieldwork was done over 59 days (from Novem~ of the Beardmore Glacier area. In: Antarctic Geology and Geo­ ber 10, 1974;·toJanuary7, 1975) by a four-person physics (RJ. Adie, editor). Oslo, Universitetsforlaget. 427-433. motor toboggan party operating from two main Skinner, D. N. B., and J. Ricker. 1968. The geology of the region between the Mawson and Priestley glaciers, north tent camps (figure). The party consisted of Sergei Victoria Land, Antarctica: part II, Upper Paleozoic to Qua­ Aleksandrovich Abakumov, Arctic Geological Re­ ternary geology. N.Z. Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 11: search Institute (Soviet Union), who conducted . 1041 -1075. bedrock investigations, John W. Attig, Jr., and Robert D. Slocum, University of Maine, who as­ sisted in the glacial geology, and myself. Snow­ mobile traverses of 2 to 14 days were made from Glacial geologic investigation the main camps, with duration depending on sur­ face conditions en route (figure). Although the of upper Rennick Glacier region, Alpine 440 ER Ski Doo snowmobiles proved ef­ northern Victoria Land ficient field vehicles, their gas mileage varies with snow surface changes. This variation, combined with a limitation as to quantity of fuel carried, largely dictated routes and traverse times. Field P. A. MAYEWSKI* flights were made, courtesy of the U.S. Navy's Department of Geological Sciences Antarctic Development Squadron Six (vxE-6), using Institute for Quaternary Studies Lc-130 Hercules airplanes, and were shared with University of Maine N.Z. geological parties led by Malcolm Laird and Orono, Maine 04473 Roger Cooper. Detailed glacial histories were determined for several areas (figure) in the upper Rennick Glacier area. Preliminary interpretation of results reveals a The 1974-1975 field season was spent investigat­ history punctuated by four glacial episodes, with all ing the upper Rennick Glacier area (figure) for (1) but the oldest two being separated by identifiable the relationship between the glacial history of the periods of glacier recession. The glacial episodes, study area and the glacial histories already defined defined by moraines, drift sheets, and erratics, were for more southerly sectors of the Transantarctic differentiated in the field by (1) elevation, con­ Mountains, (2) the history and dimensions of for­ tinuity, and distribution of glacial deposits, (2) litho­ mer fluctuations of the east antarctic ice sheet, logic and mineralogic components of the deposits, Rennick Glacier, and its tributaries, as recorded in (3) weathering of surficial clasts capping the de­ glacial deposits, and (3) the significance ofthis area posits, and (4) directional indicators recording dif­ in paleoclimatic reconstructions of Antarctica and ferent flow paths of the ice masses responsible for the world. the deposition of the glacial materials. Laboratory analyses are being made to differen­ tiate between soils developed on the various glacial deposits. Once the glacial episodes are spatially re­ *Present affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University fined, ice surface reconstructions will be made. The of New H ampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824. glacial events and ice surface reconstructions then 164 ANT ARCTIC JOURNAL G r t S $ 1 tt ~-'-SC""A-LE,------'I.5 K rn . i Eva n s .I ./ Neve 6 , Hain tent ClIIDpS . 6: Secondary tent C8.ll>pS . Hotor toboggan routea (with au dace conditions) - ____ Good aurface (sastrug!, in genera!, < 10 Cll! . high) . _ ._. _. Hed!u>;ll surface {saatrugi, in general, < )0 Clll. high}. '--"s6"'. LC;;E~I 5 K m, ............ Poor surface (sastrugi, ingener al,' )OC>;II . high) . .. _ .. _ .. Poor s urface (crevasses). .,~ Motor toboggan routes and ... _ ... _ Poor surface (crevasses SlId icefalls) . *: Designate general a r eas in which detailed studiea surface conditions. were undertaken. will be compared to those made farther south using panded ice sheet in the Ross Sea (Hughes, 1973; methods and results as summarized by Mayewski Denton and Borns, 1974). and Goldthwait (1973) and Mayewski (in press). Substantiating the suggestion of recent collapse, Two findings to date relate to the youngest gla­ during reconnaissance flights along the northern cial episode (which by definition continues to the Victoria Land coast, we saw, in places, intensely present). First, observations of lateral and terminal crevassed ice draped over highlands above the glacier margins point to recent readvance of these present glacier network. The topographic anomaly margins. Observation of the read vance is confined of these crevasses may be the result of response to to interior northern Victoria Land and most likely a recent drop in ice level and consequent change in represents an advance of less than several tens of ice flow around coastal peaks. This event occurred meters. Evidence for the read vance includes steeply recently enough to prevent disintegration of rem­ cliffed ice margins, locally advancing over pre­ nant crevassed ice on these high coastal peaks. The viously developed ice-cored moraines. An apparent former higher ice level may have been maintained incongruity exists between the noted readvance of by the grounded ice sheet suggested by Denton inland ice and the recent collapse of a formerly ex- and Borns (1974). July/August 1975 165 The readvance noted in the interior of n0rthern · photographic staff of VXE-6 for invaluable service, Victoria Land may therefore represent (1 ) an in­ and to Scott Base and the N .Z. parties led by Drs. terior redistribution of ice in response to the drop Laird and Cooper, with whom our party had re­ in ice surface level along the coast or (2) an interior warding radio exchanges. buildup o( ice as a function of an enlarged moisture This research was supported by National Science source in response to the collapse of ice in the Ross Foundation grant OPP 74-15210. Sea and the enlarged open ocean area. A second finding to date is that the character and the distribution of snow patches on the interior massifs of the upper Rennick Glacier area provide References further evidence as to recent ice regimes in this area. Photographs taken in December 1962, com­ pared to those supplied by VXE-6 in November Denton, G. H., and H. W. Borns, Jr. 1974. Former grounded ice sheets in the Ross Sea. Antarctic J ournal of the U.S., IX(4): 1974, demonstrate marked recessions of highland 167. snow patches. The apparent decrease in moisture Hughes, T. 1973. Is the West Antarctic ice sheet disintegrating? available to localized snow patches is being eval­ J ournal of Geophysical R esearch, 78(33): 7884-7910. uated and will be compared to climatic parameters Mayewski, P. A., and R P. Goldthwait. 1973. Glacial geology and Late Cenozoic history of the Transantarctic Mountains, in th~ area and the noted readvance of nearby ice Antarctica. IX INQUA Congress, New Zealand: 232. margms. Mayewski, P. A. In press. Glacial geology and Late Cenozoic history of the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Colum­ bus, The Ohio State University, Institute of Polar Studies. Thanks are extended to the flight crews and Report. Dry Valley Drilling Project, confirmed with holes 10, 11, and 12.
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