Implications of soils on mid-Miocene-aged drifts in the McMurdo Dry Valleys for ice sheet history and paleoclimate reconstruction

Geomorphology

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 12-24

  Bockheim, James G ^a   Ackert Jr , Robert P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic soils; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Paleosols; Pedology; Salts; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL PROFILE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 34948907302     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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