Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Antarctica

Antarctica has a total area of 13.9 × 106 km², of which 44 890 km² (0.32 percent) is ice-free (Fox and Cooper, 1994; British Antarctic Survey, 2005) with potential for soil development. Ice free areas are mainly confined to the Antarctic Peninsula, a few places around the perimeter of the continent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balks, Megan R.
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations 2015
Subjects:
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Ross Sea
McMurdo Dry Valleys
Transantarctic Mountains
Antarc*
Antarctica
British Antarctic Survey
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9866
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Summary:Antarctica has a total area of 13.9 × 106 km², of which 44 890 km² (0.32 percent) is ice-free (Fox and Cooper, 1994; British Antarctic Survey, 2005) with potential for soil development. Ice free areas are mainly confined to the Antarctic Peninsula, a few places around the perimeter of the continent and along the Transantarctic Mountains. The largest ice-free area (approximately 5 000 km²) is the McMurdo Dry Valleys in the Ross Sea Region.

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