Soil development within glacier forelands, Southeast Iceland

Glaciers in Iceland have been steadily retreating since the end of the Little Ice Age ~1890, exposing surfaces where weathering and vegetation succession commences. This thesis presents the results from studies on soil development along chronosequences, a time for space substitution, within the fore...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olga Kolbrún Vilmundardóttir 1981-
Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1946/22917