Phosphates in Ornithogenic soils of the maritime Antarctic

• Main Authors: Andrzej Tatur, Er K E C K
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Antarctic; Guano; Antarc*; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.453.3162; http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/polarbiosci/issues/pdf/1990-Tatur.pdf

Abstract: Ornithogenic soils have been formed in stony loams on and around penguin rookeries along the sea shore of the maritime Antarctic. The fine fraction of these soils contains mainly posphates of various chemical and mineral compo-sitions. Genetic horizons of ornithogenic soils resulted from d...