Schussel Cirque

- 71.56666666666711.5Koordinaten: 71 ° 34 '0 "S, 11 ° 30' 0" E

In the bowl of the name is a glaciated valley in the north of the Alexander -von- Humboldt Mountains in New Swabia ( Antarctica ), which was discovered during the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39. The first cartographic representation was made by Otto von Gruber for the 1942 expedition published report. On Norwegian topographic maps of the 1960s, the valley is named Grautfatet.

Geography

The valley has a north- south distance of about six kilometers and ten kilometers in east-west direction with a wide opening to the West for Somov Glacier and a glaciated mountain pass to the north- east, which was given the name at the overflow. The ice on the valley floor is largely covered by a Obermoräne. The surface of the Somov glacier west of the Talausgangs decreases from 1700 to 1600 m above sea level and is thus up to 120 m higher than the surface of the ice in the valley, the deepest measured point is 1580 m. This valley is currently no outlet and the Obermoräne is urged by the influx of ice from the glacier Somov against the mountains to the east, resulting in a garland- like shape of this moraine.

Theses

During the GeoMaud Expedition 1995/96 surrounding the valley mountains were geologically mapped and on the very slow-flowing ice of the valley floor heat flow measurements performed which demonstrated an unusually high heat flow in the underlying crust. The thickness of the ice and the structure of the bedrock was studied by ground-based radar measurements. The bedrock of the valley has two V-shaped V-shaped valleys, one from the South Rim at the Loose plate which extends to the northwest and one that runs from the eastern edge of the mountain range to Western. Both valleys unite at the western exit of In the bowl, there reaches the thickness of the valley glacier over 1000 meters.