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should be formally recognized , its type section might well be that of the west wall of Beacon Dry Valley , 2 miles south of the crest of Pyraadd Mountain. " (Hamilton and Hayes , 10) 3. Type sect ion a. Locat ion Wes t wall of Beacon Dry Valley , Beacon Heights , Victoria Land b . Thickness llOO feet c . Lithology Buff , pink , and wh ite cliff-forming medium- to coarse-grained sands tone and quartz ite , in thick even beds , many of which are cros s -bedded . d . Relat ion to other units Overlies New Mountain sands tone dis conformably Overlain by Finger Mountain sands tone 4 . Synonyms or closely related names Member A of MCKelvey , B . C . and P . N. Webb. 19 59 Geological inves tigat ion in South Victoria Land , Antarct ica , Pt . 2 , Geology of upper Taylor Glacier region : New Zealand Jour . Geology and Geophys ics , v. 2 , p . 7 18 -728 . S . Remarks Member of Beacon Sands tone Queen Maud Mountains metamorphic rocks 1 . First published use Gould ; Laurence M. Some Geographical Results of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition ; Geog . Rev. 2 1 , p. 17 7 -200 , 193 1 . 2 . Definit ion "The foothills with thef:r ragged outlines are coq»osed essent ially of a great mass of dark-colored micaceous gneisses and schis ts with smaller amounts of granites . In some places this older mass was shot through with younger lighter-colored granites giving the whole a fairly biz arre s triped effect . " (Gould , 187 ) - 104 -