Kraut Rocks [SEP] continent
Kraut Rocks
The Kraut Rocks () are a group of rock outcrops on the snow-covered, lower southwest slopes of the Mount Berlin massif, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–66, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for William F. Kraut, U.S. Navy, a radioman with the 1956 Army Navy Trail Party that traversed eastward from Little America V to establish Byrd Station.
has been recognized by F. Kraut in 1969. The occurrence an unusual set of rock types referred as "breccias" on the crystalline rocks of the Massif Central was reported in the Rochechouart area since the start of geology, in the early 1800s. However, their interpretation either as sedimentary, volcanic, tectonic, or a mix of these, was a major subject of debate until impact became progressively recognized as a geological process in the 1960s.
The impact origin of Rochechouart was definitely confirmed in the mid 1970s with the recognition