Investigations of the moraines and raised marine deposits and fossils at Black Island and Brown Peninsula, McMurdo Sound

Marine deposits named Scallop Hill Formation were investigated with fossils (Zygochlamys, barnacles and others) described and studied. The volcanic of this area was also investigated with an aim to map and collect rocks of the McMurdo Volcanic Series and to compare their age with the surrounding moraine. Samples were collected and made into thin sections for examination and classification and comprehensive mapping with the establishment of a series of different volcanic eruptions on Black Island and Peninsula was completed.