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Title

Micromorphology of cryoconite on Garabashi and Skhelda glaciers and soils of Baksan Gorge, Mt. Elbrus, Central Caucasus

Journal title

Polish Polar Research

Yearbook

2022

Volume

vol. 43

Issue

No 1

Authors

Abakumov, Evgeny ; Tembotov, Rustam ; Kushnov, Ivan ; Polyakov, Vyacheslav

Affiliation

Abakumov, Evgeny : Saint-Petersburg State University, 7/9 University Embankment, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia ; Tembotov, Rustam : Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories, Russian Academy of Sciences, 37a, I. Armand Street, Nalchik, 360051, Russia ; Kushnov, Ivan : Saint-Petersburg State University, 7/9 University Embankment, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia ; Polyakov, Vyacheslav : Saint-Petersburg State University, 7/9 University Embankment, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

Keywords

Russia ; Caucasus ; sediments ; weathering ; deglaciation

Divisions of PAS

Nauki o Ziemi

Coverage

1-20

Publisher

Polish Academy of Sciences ; Committee on Polar Research

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Date

2021.09.30

Type

Article

Identifier

DOI: 10.24425/ppr.2021.138590

Editorial Board


Editorial Advisory Board


Robert BIALIK (Warszawa, Poland)

Magda BŁAŻEWICZ (Łódź, Poland)

Alistair CRAME (Cambridge, UK)

Josef ELSTER (České Budějovice, Czechia)

Jacek JANIA (Sosnowiec, Poland)

Cezary KABAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerónimo LÓPEZ-MARTINEZ (Madrid, Spain)

Krzysztof MIGAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerzy NAWROCKI (Warszawa, Poland)

Maria OLECH (Kraków, Poland)

Sergej OLENIN (Klaipeda, Litva)

Sandra PASSCHIER (Montclair, USA)

Jan PAWŁOWSKI (Sopot, Poland)

Żaneta POLKOWSKA (Gdańsk, Poland)

Gerhard SCHMIEDL (Hamburg, Germany)

Peter SCHWEITZER (Vienna, Austria)

Janne SOREIDE (UNIS, Svalbard)

Lech STEMPNIEWICZ (Gdańsk, Poland)

Mateusz STRZELECKI (Wrocław, Poland)

Witold SZCZUCIŃSKI (Poznań, Poland)

Slawek TULACZYK (Santa Cruz, USA)

Jan Marcin WĘSŁAWSKI (Sopot, Poland) - President

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