Tschermakfjellet is a mountain in

Dickson Land Dickson Land is a land area between Isfjorden and Wijdefjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean w ...

Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipel ...

Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...

. It has a height of 422

m.a.s.l. Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level vari ...

, and is located between the valley of

Sauriedalen Sauriedalen is a valley in Dickson Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about sixteen kilometers, extending from Njordfjellet and Gyntflya to Tschermakfjellet. The valley is named from fossil Triassic reptiles (sauria Sauria i ...

and

Kongressfjellet Kongressfjellet is a mountain in Dickson Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a height of 605 m.a.s.l., and is located between the valleys of Idodalen (north) and Sauriedalen (east), and the mountain of Tschermakfjellet (south). References

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. The mountain is named after Austrian mineralogist

Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg (19 April 1836 – 24 May 1927) was an Austrian mineralogist. Biography He was born in Litovel, Moravia, and studied at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a teaching degree. He studied mineralogy at Heid ...

Geology

The mountain has given name to the

Triassic The Triassic ( ; sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is t ...

Tschermakfjellet Formation The Tschermakfjellet Formation is a geological formation in Svalbard, Norway, a subunit of the Kapp Toscana Group. The formation dates to the Late Triassic (Carnian, early Carnian). Description It is named after the mountain of Tschermakfjell ...

of the

Kapp Toscana Group The Kapp Toscana Group is a geologic group in Svalbard and Jan Mayen in the Barents Sea, Norway. Description The group dates back to the Late Triassic, and comprises the rock formations of Tschermakfjellet, De Geerdalen and Wilhelmøya. The ...

, consisting of sandstones and silty shales.

References

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