Natural Conditions and Soils of 'Agapa' Station (Western Taymyr) (Prirodnye Usloviya i Pochvy Statsionara 'Agapa' (Zapadnyi Taimir))

• Main Authors: Vasilevskaya,V. D., Ivanov,V. V., Bogatyrev,L. C.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Soil Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*SOILS; USSR); PLANTS(BOTANY); ECONOMICS; PERMAFROST; MILK; VEGETABLES; MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; TERRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; HYDROLOGY; ARCTIC REGIONS; TRANSLATIONS; TUNDRA; Arctic; Taymyr; Chelyuskin; Agapa; Cape Chelyuskin; Ice; permafrost; Taymyr Peninsula; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0764804; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0764804

The Taymyr Peninsula, having Cape Chelyuskin for its northernmost point, reaches 77 deg 43 min N; this peninsula is the northernmost projection not only in Eurasia but also in the entire world. The vegetation, the animal kingdom, and particularly the Taymyr soils, have been poorly studied. At the sa...