Soil preservation and ventifact recycling from dry-based glaciers in Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 409-417

  Bockheim, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

boulder belt moraines; buried soils; recycled ventifacts; Transantarctic Mountains

Indexed keywords

CLAST; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATABASE; DESERT SOIL; GLACIER; MIOCENE; MORAINE; PALEOSOL; PEDON; QUATERNARY; ROCK BLOCK; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION; THERMAL REGIME;

ANTARCTICA; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77958484592     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102010000167     Document Type: Article

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