The Taylor Valley:

Only very brief reports have been published on this area. J.D. McCraw of the New Zealand Soil Bureau has recently (1962) published a paper dealing with the distribution of scoria cones and patches of the Taylor Valley.

The main object of this phase of the expedition was to map the rocks of the basement complex in order to correlate the geological work completed to the north by previous VUWAW expeditions (McKelvey and Webb, Allen and Gibson), and mapping work completed in the south in the Koettlitz region by VUWAE No. 4. Expectations were achieved and the work in the Taylor Valley essentially completes the geological mapping programme of Victoria Land Dry Valley region. A map of the geology of southern Victoria Land can now be compiled, editing all previous mapping work by Antarctic expeditions.

Using the base map compiled by U.S.G.S. on a scale of 1 cm. to 1 kilometer and aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Navy, an area of 600 square miles was mapped (fig. 3).