SCENERY AND TOPOGRAPHY 



Mount Lister (thirteen thousand feet) shows some of 

 the finest cirques in the world. The summit itself, as 

 viewed from the east, appears to have small cirques on 

 two sides while another at nearly the same level ap- 

 pears on the sky line to the right. Then there is a row 



1ST STAGE 



Overriow from 

 ze cap 



Solitary Rocks 



wm Ice Nussbaum 



RIegel 



Sea Level 



2tP STAGE 



Solit-ary Rocks 



Fig. i6. — Sections illustrating the evolution of the 

 RiEGEL in Taylor Valley. 



Stage I shows hypothetical cirque (or cwm) valleys, later over- 

 whelmed as in stage 2. (Geog. Journal, 1914-) 



of four cirques immediately below this series. Finally 

 five or six cirques are packed together in the lowest 

 rank immediately above the foothills at the head of the 

 Blue Glacier. Cirques are of all sizes from the small 

 drowned cirque in Granite Harbor to the giant Wal- 

 cott Cirque just south of Mount Lister, which is eight 



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