Ploughing boulders on the rock and pillar range, south‐central new zealand: Their geomorphology and alpine plant associations

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-70

  Grab, Stefan W ^a   Dickinson, Katharine J M ^b   Mark, Alan F ^b   Maegli, Tania ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; High alpine; New Zealand; Periglacial; Plant succession; Ploughing boulders

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BOULDER; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PLOWING; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUCCESSION; WEATHERING;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 42949109834     PISSN: 03036758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014220809510546     Document Type: Article

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