Succession Cliffs () is a line of steep cliffs 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) extending along the east coast of
Alexander Island,
Antarctica
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, facing east towards
George VI Sound immediately south of the mouth of
Pluto Glacier
Pluto Glacier () is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, which flows east into George VI Sound to the north of Succession Cliffs. Although Pluto Gl ...
. The cliffs were probably first sighted by
Lincoln Ellsworth who photographed segments of the coast in this vicinity on November 23, 1935. First roughly surveyed from the ground in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition and resurveyed in 1948 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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. So named by the FIDS because a geologic succession, or depositional sequence, is revealed by the accessible rock exposures of the cliffs.
See also
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Callisto Cliffs
Callisto Cliffs (), rising to , are two cliffs, one forming the southern margins of Jupiter Glacier, the other the eastern margin of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature was mapped from trimetrogon air photography taken by the Ronne Antarctic ...
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Cannonball Cliffs
The Cannonball Cliffs () are cliffs at the south side of the terminus of Neptune Glacier on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature consists of two east–west ridges about high, joined by a narrow north–south ridge. The featu ...
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Corner Cliffs
The Corner Cliffs () are a rocky mass surmounted by two flat-topped summits , immediately south of Saturn Glacier and lying northeast of Coal Nunatak in the southeast part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The rocks of these cliffs were hidden ...
Further reading
* Sven Brysch,
Changes in climate and palaeoenvironment during the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous in southern South America and western Antarctica', Heidelberg, 2018
External links
Succession Cliffson
USGS
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website
Succession Cliffson
SCAR
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website
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References
Cliffs of Alexander Island
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