Factors affecting polar desert soil development in the High Arctic
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https://doi.org/10.26485/BP/1986/31/24Keywords:
solifluction, primitive form of tundra, Polar landsAbstract
The High Arctic is considered. to be mantled with Polar desert soil, largely as described by B. N. Gorodkov. These extreme northern lands have been free of glacier ice only within the past 10,000 or so years. The landforms emerging from postglacial rebound, coupled with active solifluction, have commonly resulted in areas of raw-appearirtg soils. Accordingly, Polar desert soil may have only minimal development. Further, some of the Polar lands which emerged above the marine limit during Late Pleistocene time are low, flat and poorly drained, resulting in only a primitive form of tundra or bog soil being present.
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