Locality
25°33´ west longitude, 80°26´ south latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Hollingworth Cliffs, Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range/Antarctis, Antarktika

Personal relationship of donor
Geological field work was carried out in this area during the GEISHA Expedition (Geological Expedition to the Shackleton Range, 1986/87)

Emotional relevance of location
Bright-white bluff towering a snow-field. The colour of the landscape is reduced to white.

Geological relevance of location
Very pure marble of the Pioneers Group, the metamorphic equivalent of shallow marine carbonates.

Classification of the earth

Structure	marble (ground)
Colour	bright white
Age	Probably 400 - 600 million years old (metamorphic age). The age of the deposition of the calcareous ooze is much higher. The former ooze was turned into marble by diagenetic and metamorphic processes.

Donor

Dr. Norbert Roland,
 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Hannover,
 Germany