Green Mesa


Green Mesa is an ice-free mesa of extent, located west-southwest of Canfield Mesa in the western part of the Insel Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after William J. Green, of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University, who from the 1968–69 season made studies of lakes and streams in Taylor Valley and Wright Valley, including a geochemical analysis of the Onyx River and Lake Vanda with Donald E. Canfield in 1980–81, 1986–87, and 1987–88. Green was co-editor of Physical and Biogeochemical Processes in Antarctic Lakes, Antarctic Research Series, Vol. 59, American Geophysical Union, 1993.