Mount Weller (Victoria Land)

{{short description|Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica}}

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Mount Weller is a peak (2,420 m) rising above the west side of Beacon Valley, 4 nautical miles (7 km) southwest of Pyramid Mountain, in Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is also {{convert|90|mi|km}} due west of McMurdo Station. The name appears to be first used on a 1961 New Zealand Lands and Survey Department map compiled from New Zealand field surveys, 1957–60, and U.S. Navy aerial photographs of that period. Presumably named after William J. Weller, Royal Navy, a seaman of the ship RSS Discovery.{{cite web|title=Crew of the Discovery British Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1904|url=https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_whos_who_discovery.php}} In November 1903, Weller and Thomas Kennar (Kennar Valley, q.v.) accompanied Hartley T. Ferrar in the first geological reconnaissance of Quartermain Mountains.

The mountain consists of the lower Permian

Metschel Tillite (evidence of the Late Paleozoic icehouse) overlaid by fossil-rich Devonian Aztec Siltstone like much of the Beacon Supergroup.{{cite journal |last1=McKelvey |first1=B.C. |last2=Webb |first2=P.N. |last3=Kohn |first3=B.P. |title=Stratigraphy of the Taylor and lower Victoria Groups (Beacon Supergroup) between the Mackay Glacier and Boomerang Range, Antarctica |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |date=September 1977 |volume=20 |issue=5 |pages=813–863 |doi=10.1080/00288306.1977.10420685}} This in turn is covered by an exposed layer of feldspathic to quartzitic sandstone unusually rich in coal, which lends its name to the extensive Weller Sandstone.{{cite thesis |last=Isbell |first=John L. |date=1990 |title=Fluvial sedimentology and basin analyses of the Permian Fairchild and Buckley formations, Beardmore Glacier region, and the Weller Coal Measures, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303882231 |type=Ph.D. |chapter=Chapter X: Depositional Architecture of the Lower Permain Weller Coal Measures, Southern Victoria Land |publisher=Ohio State University |access-date=25 Mar 2023}} This deposit was renamed the Weller Coal Measures in 1969.{{cite journal |last1=McElroy |first1=C.T. |editor1-last=Amos |editor1-first=A.J. |title=Comparative lithostratigraphy of Gondwana sequences, Eastern Australia and Antarctica |journal=Gondwana Stratigraphy |date=1969 |pages=441-466 |location=Paris}}

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