Formation of a pronival rampart on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Antarctic Science

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 443-450

  Hedding, David W ^a   Sumner, Paul D ^b   Holness, Stephen D ^c   Meiklejohn, K Ian ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Protalus; Retrogressive; Snowbed; Supranival

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS FLOW; GROWTH RATE; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; MOSS; RETROGRESSION; SLOPE; SNOW;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MARION ISLAND; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 35848931691     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102007000582     Document Type: Article

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