Miscast Nunataks

The Miscast Nunataks (80°30′S 159°9′E) are a group of four nunataks which rise to 910 metres (3,000 ft) on the south side of Byrd Glacier in Antarctica. The outcrops lie between Mount Tadpole and Mount Madison in the Churchill Mountains. The feature was geologically mapped as Dick Formation, a clastic, sandstone unit, by the New Zealand Geological Survey in 1960–61. The current name arose following remapping by United States Antarctic Program geologist Edmund Stump in 2000–01, and the determination that the entire outcrop is not sandstone but Shackleton Limestone.[1]

References
  1. "Miscast Nunataks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-10-25.

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