Goodspeed Glacier
Goodspeed Glacier (77°30′S 162°29′E) 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 , Geogr. Ann. 75 A (4): 155–204, P 192
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References
- "Goodspeed Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
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