McMurdo Dry Valleys Soil Apatite Grain Weathering Metrics from Taylor Valley, Antarctica

• Main Author: Heindel, Ruth
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2017
• Subjects: Bonney; Fryxell; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/60981e56195e6742d727cf691912b663; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-mcm.261.2

Mineral apatite is the ultimate source of the essential nutrient phosphorus to the soil ecosystem. In order to assess the biogeochemical weathering of apatite grains in the dry, basic soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, we collected nine surface soil samples from the Fryxell and Bonney Basins of Taylo...