Miller Range
Mountain range in Antarctica
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::summary Mountain range in Antarctica ::
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| photo_caption | The ANSMET team searches for meteorites on the blue ice field in the Miller Range 3 January 2016 |
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Name
The range is named for J.H. "Bob", now Sir Joseph Holmes Miller, a member of the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1958) who, with G.W. Marsh, mapped this area.
Location
The Miller Range is in the Transantarctic Mountains to the east of the Ross Ice Shelf. It runs from north to south, and is about 80 km long and up to 30 km wide. The maximum elevation above the ice sheet is about 1700 m. There are signs of glaciation on the highest points of the range.
The Miller Range is separated by about 20 km from the adjacent ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains by the Nimrod and Marsh glaciers. The Marsh Glacier to the east and Nimrod Glacier to the west both flow north and converge just north of the range. The Queen Elizabeth Range is east of the Miller Range, on the other side of Marsh Glacier. The Cobham Range is to the northeast and the Geologists Range to the northwest, both on the other side of the Nimrod Glacier.
Geology
The Miller Range was part of the Mawson Continent. There is evidence that suggests that the Miller Range terrain was accreted to the Gawler–Adélie Craton during the 1730–1690 Ma Kimban–Nimrod Orogeny, with a suture zone that may be at or near the location of the Nimrod Group.
The range is in the Beardmore-Nimrod Glacier area, which has a basement complex of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. This is unconformably overlain by a thick sequence of sedimentary rocks, mostly from the Devonian to Triassic and of continental origin. The Miller Range differs from its neighbors in being composed only of the basement complex, which holds regional metamorphic rocks of the Nimrod Group, with Hope Granite intrusions. Metamorphic rocks of the Nimrod Group include mica schists, metaquartzites, banded gneisses, augen gneisses and marbles, all mostly derived from sedimentary sources, and amphibolites derived from basaltic rocks.
Glaciers
The Marsh Glacier lies to the east and Nimrod Glacier to the west, both of which flow north and converge just north of the range. Argo Glacier, which flows east into Marsh Glacier, divides the southern part of the range from the central part. Argosy Glacier, fed from the south by Ascent Glacier, also flows east into Marsh Glacier, and divides the central part of the range from the northern part. Skua Glacier and Astro Glacier flow northeast through the northern portion of the range into Marsh Glacier.
Cirques
Dike Cirque
Hockey Cirque
Strawberry Cirque
Southern section
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Miller_Range,Antarctica-_Snow_Machines.jpg" caption="Aboard snow machines, the team traverses a pass toward the blue ice field in the distance."] ::
The southern section is to the south of Argo Glacier.
Gerard Bluffs
Augen Bluffs
Isocline Hill
Orr Peak
Central section
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Miller_Range,Antarctica-_Moraines.jpg" caption="Blue ice field in the Miller Range, near the edge of a moraine."] ::
The Central section is between Argo Glacier and Argosy Glacier.
Milan Ridge
Greene Ridge
Martin Dome
Ong Valley
Macdonald Bluffs
Kreiling Mesa
Northern Section
The Northern section is to the north of Argosy Glacier.
Aurora Heights
Lookout Dome
Turner Hills
Tricorn Peak
Snowshoe Pass
Rust Bluff
Corner Nunatak
References
Sources
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- {{citation |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159577711.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-12 |publisher=Institute of Polar Studies |last=Gunner |first=John D. |year=1969 |title=Petrography of Metamomorphic Rocks from the Miller Range, Antarctica}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C83165s1_Ant.Map_Mount_Rabot.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-12 |title=Mount Rabot |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |year=1960 |ref= }}
- {{citation |doi=10.1144/SP323.16 |publisher=Geological Society, London |work=Special Publications |year=2009 |volume=323 |pages=319–355 |last1=Payne |first1=Justin L. |first2= Martin |last2=Hand |first3=Karin M. |last3=Barovich |first4=Anthony |last4=Reid |first5=David A. D. |last5=Evans |title=Correlations and reconstruction models for the 2500–1500 Ma evolution of the Mawson Continent|issue=1 |bibcode=2009GSLSP.323..319P }}
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