Soil-chronosequence and Quaternary landscape evolution at the marine terraces of Harmony Point, Nelson Island, Maritime Antarctica

• Published in: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
• Main Authors: WILLIAM F. RODRIGUES, MARIANA R. MACHADO, FÁBIO S. DE OLIVEIRA, CARLOS ERNESTO G.R. SCHAEFER, MARIÂNGELA G.P. LEITE, ROBERTO F.M. MICHEL, TEODORO GAUZZI
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic soils; Holocene beaches; Ornithogenic soils; Soil mineralogy; Glacier-isostatic uplift; Science; Q; Antarctic; Harmony Point; Nelson Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202220201141; https://doaj.org/article/c9c030b5cb93446ebf45656e06fa2923

Abstract This study characterized the physical, chemical, macro- and micromorphological soil properties from three successive marine terrace levels from Harmony Point (Nelson Island, Maritime Antarctica) in order to understand the pedological signatures of Quaternary coastal landscape evolution of M...