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Thiel Mountains - Davies Escarpment
The Davies Escarpment is an ice escarpment some 70 kilometers in length extending southward from the Bermel Escarpment in the Thiel Mountains proper. Blue ice areas of limited extent are located at the north end and the south end of the escarpment. At one point along the escarpment, a short distance southwest of Lewis Nunatak a small area of bedrock is exposed.
A total of seven meteorite specimens representing five meteorites were found along the escarpment. Six specimens were recovered from the northern end and one was found mixed in with terrestrial rock near the south end. TIL-Figure 1 (78 KB JPEG) shows the approximate locations of the specimens found along the Davies Escarpment.
TIL36-Table 1 gives a tabulation of the types of meteorites recovered from the Davies Escarpment.
Acknowledgments; Richard Crane, Urs Krähenbuhl, Louis Rancitelli, and John Schutt were members of the 1982-1983 ANSMET reconnaissance field party.
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