Anderson Scarp [SEP] continent
Anderson Scarp
Anderson Scarp () is an upward slope and cliff high, about west of Hall Bluff on the Dais, Wright Valley, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2004 after Kent Anderson of the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, from 1992. He played a key role in the installation of the VNDA seismograph station at Bull Pass, near Lake Vanda, in the early 1990s.
the fault. Because the scarp is not present along the entire length of the fault, it is subdivided in a southeastern section in Comanche County and a northwestern section in Kiowa County, with only the southeastern section featuring a scarp. the scarp marks the Holocene section of the fault. The Meers fault is the only Mid-Continent fault scarp and has been called the "finest" such scarp east of the Rocky Mountains.
In low sun-angle photography additional scarps and splays can be observed. The erosion/sedimentation