Dry Valley Context Taylor Valley Environment Mean Annual Air Temp:-16 to-21 °C Mean Wind Speed: 2 to 4 m/s Mean Summer Air Temp: -5 °C Continuous Daylight Through Summer Streams: - Flow for 4 to 12 Weeks

Moss: only riparian vegetation • Permanently ice-covered lakes • Dependence on streams for recharge • Streams link glaciers and lakes • Streams are ecosystem hotspots Witherow, Rebecca. Lake Chad and the Seuss Glacier. McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mcmurdo Dry Valleys Antarctica, Katy Gerecht, Unconsolidated Alluvium, Carry Sediments
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Lake Chad
McMurdo Dry Valleys
Taylor Valley
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.626.7442
http://spot.colorado.edu/~bielefel/resources/GerechtPresentation.pdf
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Summary:Moss: only riparian vegetation • Permanently ice-covered lakes • Dependence on streams for recharge • Streams link glaciers and lakes • Streams are ecosystem hotspots Witherow, Rebecca. Lake Chad and the Seuss Glacier. McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological

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