ice thickness is smaller. Prominent ranges include the Ford Ranges in western MBL, The Flood Range, the Executive Committee Range, and the Kohler Range. The Ford Ranges are the most extensive and include more than six individual named mountains groups. The Executive Committee Range includes five volcanoes, some proposed to be dormant or active. The Flood Range comprises a linear chain of Neogene and Quaternary age volcanoes. The Fosdick mountains in the northern Ford Ranges are a thirty-kilometer-long span of Cretaceous metamorphic rocks. Most other exposed rock in MBL is Paleozoic metamorphosed sedimentary rock and granitiods, and Mesozoic granitiod. Away from the coasts, the WAIS buries individual mountains and ranges that are not named, the exception being major features such as the Bentley Subglacial Trench. Marie Byrd Seamount () is a seamount named in association with Marie Byrd Land; name approved June, 1988 (Advisory Committee on Undersea Features, 228). Mountain peaks and summits Not comprehensive. In popular culture Marie Byrd Land is the location of the southern outpost of Brakebill's Academy in Lev Grossman's 2009 novel The Magicians. Byrd Station was the template for the doomed Antarctic bases in: The John Carpenter horror movie The Thing (1982) James Rollins' tenth Sigma Force novel The 6th Extinction (2014). References Further reading External links White Ocean of Ice Antarctica and climate change blog Suite of projects under the Thwaites organization Airborne investigations of Ross Sea continental margin and geology of the west edge of Marie Byrd Land West Antarctica Regions of Antarctica Lands of Antarctica Marie Byrd Land explorers and scientists