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Gutenberg Glacier
Gutenberg
Glacier
is a
glacier
long in the northern
Holyoake Range
of the
Churchill Mountains
of
Antarctica
. It flows
northwest
between
Mount Hubble
and
Mount Richter
to
enter
Starshot Glacier
. The glacier was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
after German-born
seismologist
Beno Gutenberg
,
director
of the
California Institute of Technology
seismology
laboratory
in the
1930s
, and collaborator with
Charles
F.
Richter
in developing the
Richter Scale
,
1935
, used to measure the
magnitude
of
earthquakes
.
