It was named by Dwight Schmidt, geologist to the Pensacola Mountains, 1962–66, for William Thomas Pecora, eighth director of the United States Geological Survey, 1965–71.

[1] Download coordinates as: The Pecora Escarpment is an isolated at the southwest end of the Pensacola Mountains.

A flat rock ledge that caps the southwest extremity of Pecora Escarpment.

A conspicuous rock outlier, 1,595 metres (5,233 ft) high, at the end of a snow-covered spur extending westward for 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) from central Pecora Escarpment.

Named by US-ACAN for Gerald H. Damschroder, construction mechanic at Plateau Station, winter 1966.