(Table 1) Moisture content of buried snowpack deposit samples from Pearse Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys

• Main Authors: Heldmann, J L, Marinova, M, Williams, K E, Lacelle, Denis, McKay, Christopher P, Davila, A, Pollard, W, Andersen, D T
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; Date/time end; EXC; Excavation; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; McMurdo Dry Valleys; southern Victorica Land; Antarctica; PearseValley; Sample ID; Sample type; Site; Water content; wet mass; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Science; International Polar Year; polar desert
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.810715; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.810715

Buried snowpack deposits are found within the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, which offers the opportunity to study these layered structures of sand and ice within a polar desert environment. Four discrete buried snowpacks are studied within Pearse Valley, Antarctica, through in situ observations...