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Lyons Creek (Antarctica)
Lyons
Creek
is a
meltwater
stream, long, flowing
northeast
along the
south side
of
Taylor Glacier
into the west
end of
Lake Bonney
in
Taylor Valley
,
Victoria Land
,
Antarctica
. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
in 1996 after geologist
William Berry Lyons
, of the
University of Alabama
, who
studied
the geochemistry and
paleolimnology
of the streams and lakes of the
McMurdo Dry Valleys
from
1985
.