The effect of human activities on moisture content of soils and underlying permafrost from the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Key words; Antarctica; environmental damage; McMurdo Sound; moisture content; permafrost; soils; Marble Point; Pram Point; Antarc*; Ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.486.4776; http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/934/Balks McMurdo Sound.pdf;jsessionid=B4BCAA2D8D614FFB3AADD26D1BD324A1?sequence=1

Abstract: Soils and the underlying permafrost from undisturbed sites and sites that had been disturbed by construction activities at Marble Point and Pram Point in the McMurdo Sound regionwere sampled from excavated pits and drill cores. Gravimetric moisture (ice) contents and particle size distribu...