Soil characteristics of 48-year-old borrow pits and vehicle tracks in shrub tundra along the CANOL no. 1 pipeline corridor, Northwest Territories, Canada

Arctic and Alpine Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-111

  Harper, Karen A ^a   Kershaw, G Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 0030906079     PISSN: 00040851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1551840     Document Type: Article

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