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[[File:Buckeye Table.jpg|350px|thumb|View of Mount Schopf, Buckeye Table, and Darling Ridge from a C-130 Hercules]]
The '''Buckeye Table''' (84°49'00"S 114°45'00"W) is a plateau 12 miles long and 2 to 5 miles wide located in the central part of the [[Ohio Range]] in [[Antarctica]]. The feature is a high, level surface covered with [[snow]] and [[ice]] with precipitous cliffs on the northern face. On the south side, the plateau surface merges gradually with the inland ice.

==Discovery and name==
Buckeye Table was officially named in 1962 after being proposed by William H. Chapman, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) surveyor in these mountains in the 1958-59 season. "Buckeye" is a nickname of the state of Ohio and Ohio State University.

==Geology==
In the Buckeye Range of the [[Horlick Mountains]], 4000 feet of sedimentary rocks nonconformably overlie a granitic basement and underlie a thick diabasic sill. The sedimentary section consists of Devonian sandstone and shale, Carboniferous tillite, Permian platy and carbonaceous shale, and Permian arkose, shale, and numerous coal beds.

==External links==
* [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/136/3513/319 Geologic paper]
* [https://pubs.usgs.gov/a/13/plate-1.pdf Geologic Map of the Table]

[[Category:Geography of Westarctica]]

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