Examination of the Cenozoic glaciomarine deposits, moraines and benches of Black Island and Brown Peninsula

Correlation of Cenozoic glaciomarine deposits, moraines and benches of Black Island and Brown Peninsula was conducted. Flat coastal areas at the north-western end of Black Island were found to consist of relatively thin moraine overlying solid ice. Processes causing changes in the surface morphology with time were studied, and it may be possible to relate these to the formation of the higher level benches on Black Island. Large numbers of well preserved marine macrofossils were collected from ice cored moraine along the west coast of Black Island. The samples were thought to represent a past bottom fauna living beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. Older fossiliferous deposits of the Scallop Hill Formation were mapped and sampled around the northern end of Brown Peninsula. Analysis of the fossils and sediment should give evidence of the conditions of deposition of the formation. Volcanic agglomerates outcropping extensively around Tuff Bluff and Frame Ridge at the northern end of Brown Peninsula were also mapped and sampled.