Marchant Glacier

Marchant Glacier (78°6′S 162°3′E / 78.1°S 162.05°E / -78.1; 162.05) is a glacier, about 7 nautical miles (13 km) long, which drains the slopes of Rampart Ridge between Mount Bishop and Mount Potter and flows northwest to the vicinity of Mount Bockheim, in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1994 after David R. Marchant, glacial geologist, University of Maine; Boston University, from 1995; in connection with Antarctic field work since 1985, discovered and used volcanic ashes to infer paleoclimate change and geologic stability in the McMurdo Dry Valleys and map the glacial history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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