Properties and soil development of late-pleistocene paleosols from Seward Peninsula, Northwest Alaska

Geoderma

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 219-243

  Höfle, Claudia ^a   Ping, Chien Lu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOESS; NUTRIENT; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PERMAFROST SOIL; PLEISTOCENE; SOIL DEVELOPMENT;

USA, ALASKA, SEWARD PENINSULA;

EID: 0030153376     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7061(96)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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