Description
Wharton Creek flows into Lake Chad at the west end and drains the Suess Glacier. The stream primarily runs along the base of the glacier and flows across a sandy delta into the lake. The stream length provided is for the reach at the base that is away from the glacier and includes the delta. Stream length: 1 km.
Environmental data
Hydrological, biological, chemical, and physical property measurements have been made for a number of McMurdo Dry Valley streams and lakes.
See: LTER Data
Diatom taxa found in
Wharton Creek
- Achnanthes taylorensis
- Amphora cf. oligotraphenta
- Chamaepinnularia cymatopleura
- Chamaepinnularia deltaica
- Chamaepinnularia quaternaria
- Craticula molestiformis
- Fistulifera pelliculosa
- Hantzschia abundans
- Hantzschia amphioxys
- Hantzschia amphioxys f. muelleri
- Hantzschia hyperaustralis
- Humidophila arcuata
- Humidophila arcuata var. parallela
- Humidophila australis
- Luticola australomutica
- Luticola austroatlantica
- Luticola dolia
- Luticola elegans
- Luticola gaussii
- Luticola laeta
- Luticola mcknightiae
- Luticola murrayi
- Luticola mutica
- Luticola muticopsis
- Luticola permuticopsis
- Mayamaea atomus
- Mayamaea atomus fo. permitis
- Mayamaea atomus var. #1
- Muelleria meridionalis
- Muelleria peraustralis
- Muelleria supra
- Navicula shackletoni
- Nitzschia australocommutata
- Nitzschia westiorum
- Psammothidium papilio
- Stauroneis latistauros
Wharton Creek, Taylor Valley.
See: Overview maps
Suess Glacier with Wharton Creek drainage to left. 2002. Photo: Justin Joslin.
Dry stream bed of Wharton Creek, along the Suess Glacier. 2001. Photo: Justin Joslin.
