Arctic soil development on a series of marine terraces on central Spitsbergen, Svalbard: A combined geochronology, fieldwork and modelling approach

SOIL

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 221-240

  Marijn van der Meij, W ^a,b   Temme, Arnaud J A M ^b,c   J de Kleijn, Christian M F J ^b   Reimann, Tony ^b   Heuvelink, Gerard B M ^b   Zwolinski, Zbigniew ^d   Rachlewicz, Grzegorz ^d   Rymer, Krzysztof ^d   Sommer, Michael ^a,e  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHRONOSEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUBSOIL; TERRACE; WEATHERING;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 85026422663     PISSN: 21993971     EISSN: 2199398X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/soil-2-221-2016     Document Type: Article

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