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Cryosols and Earth-System Sciences

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Cryosols have played an important role in understanding Earth’s systems, including relative dating of soil parent materials, correlating geologic deposits, understanding glacier dynamics, reconstructing past environments, preservation of artefacts and microorganisms, detecting paleo-human occupation sites, predicting soils and geomorphic surfaces on extraterrestrial planets such as Mars, and determining whether or not high level lakes existed during the early Holocene in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

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    James G. Bockheim

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Bockheim, J.G. (2015). Cryosols and Earth-System Sciences. In: Cryopedology. Progress in Soil Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08485-5_11

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