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Goodspeed Glacier

Coordinates: 77°30′S 162°29′E / 77.500°S 162.483°E

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Goodspeed Glacier (77°30′S 162°29′E / 77.500°S 162.483°E / -77.500; 162.483) is a small hanging glacier on the south wall of Wright Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Hart Glacier and Denton Glacier. It was named by U.S. geologist Robert Nichols after Robert Goodspeed, geological assistant to Nichols at nearby Marble Point in the 1959–60 field season.^[1]

Further reading

Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water, P 716
Edmund Stump, The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains, P 104
James G. Bockheim, The Soils of Antarctica, P 129
Denton, George H., Sugden David, E., Marchant, David R., Hall, Brenda L. and Wilch, Thomas I., EAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET SENSITIVITY TO PLIOCENE CLIMATIC CHANGE FROM A DRY VALLEYS PERSPECTIVE ^{[permanent dead link]}, Geogr. Ann. 75 A (4): 155–204, P 192

References

^ "Goodspeed Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-04-30.

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