Daniels Range
Mountain range of the Usarp Mountains, Antarctica
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::summary Mountain range of the Usarp Mountains, Antarctica ::
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Exploration and name
The range was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photographs in 1960–63. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Ambassador Paul Clement Daniels (1903–86), a leading American figure in the formulation of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959.
Location
|caption=1:250,000 scale topographic map of the Daniels Range |align=right}} The Daniels Range is in the Usarp Mountains in northern Victoria Land. The range is aligned north–south. It is about 80 km long and has an area of about 2200 km2. The western flank is gently inclined and merges into the polar plateau, while the eastern flank is generally steep. Bedrock is exposed extensively along both the west and the east of the range where ridges jut out from the ice-covered crest of the mountains. Often the cliffs and peaks rise several hundred meters above the ice.
The Emlen Peaks, Helliwell Hills and Morozumi Range are to the south and southwest. The Rennick Glacier is to the west. The Pomerantz Tableland is to the north.
Geology
The Daniels Range seems to be a large fault block that may have been uplifted more along the eastern flank. The range is underlain by a structurally complex combination of intrusive rocks and intensely deformed metamorphic rocks. Most of the plutonic rocks were formed at the same time as the Granite Harbour Intrusives. Almost all the metamorphic rocks are sedimentary in origin.
The basement rocks of the Daniels Range consists of the Rennick Schist, Wilson Gneisses and Granite Harbor Intrusives. These stratigraphic units are exposed in the Allegro Valley and Largo Valley, along the Thompson Spur and Schroeder Spur, and in other locations in the range. The Rennick Schist grades into the Wilson Gneisses, which may imply that the gneisses were formed from the schist by regional metamorphosis and partial melting. The Wilson Gneisses appear to have cooled in the Neoproterozoic or early Paleozoic. The Rennick Schist crystalized around 532 Ma, in the Early Cambrian.
Glaciers
The Gressitt Glacier forms to the south of the southern end of the range and flows northeast past the range to join the Rennick Glacier. The Edwards Glacier and Swanson Glacier form in the southern part of the range and flow east towards the Gressit Glacier. The Harlin Glacier forms to the west of the northern part of the range, and flows north and then east round the north of the range to join the Rennick Glacier, which empties into Rennick Bay.
Edwards Glacier
Swanson Glacier
Northern section
Milles Nunatak
Howell Peak
Lee Nunatak
Ship Nunatak
Penseroso Bluff
Central section
Fisher Spur
Mount Nero
Misch Crag
A rock crag 1 mi NE of Forsythe Bluff, rising to c. 2,590 m on the west side of Daniels Range, Usarp Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN aerial photographs, 1960–63. Named by US-ACAN in 1986 after Peter Misch, Professor Emeritus of Geology, University of Washington, who has contributed to the training of numerous geologists who have worked in the Antarctic.
Forsythe Bluff
Bystander Nunatak
Allegro Valley
White Spur
Southeast section
Big Brother Bluff
Fikkan Peak
A peak midway between Big Brother Bluff and Mount Burnham along the W wall of Daniels Range, in the Usarp Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Philip R. Fikkan, USARP geologist at McMurdo Station, 1967-68.
Mount Burnham
A projecting, bluff-type mountain (2,810 m) along the west wall of Daniels Range, 6 mi south of Big Brother Bluff, in the Usarp Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-AC AN for James B. Burnham, ionospheric physicist who wintered at South Pole Station in 1958 and 1961.
Bounty Nunatak
Southwest section
Thompson Spur
Mount Toogood
Fruitcake Bluff
Schroeder Spur
Mount McKenny
Notes
References
Sources
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- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C71198s1_Ant.Map_Daniels_Range.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-13 |title=Daniels Range |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |ref= }}
- {{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Xk482GKlQsC&pg=PA110 |accessdate=2023-12-13 |year=2010 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |last1=Faure |first1=Gunter |first2=Teresa M. |last2=Mensing |title=The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water}}
- {{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KE3wCs13g7IC&pg=PA113 |accessdate=2023-12-13 |title=Antarctic Earth Science |last1=Plummer |first1=C.C. |last2=Babcock |first2=R.S. |last3=Sheraton |first3=J.W. |last4=Adams |first4=C.J.D. |last5=Oliver |first5=R.L. |chapter=Geology of the Daniels Range, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: A Preliminary Report |editor1=R. L. Oliver |editor2=P. R. James |editor3=J. B. Jago |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1983}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C70198s1_Ant.Map_Pomerantz_Tableland.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-13 |title=Pomerantz Tableland |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |ref= }}
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