Soil-Landforms Interdependencies and Weathering at Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Maritime Antarctica

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volume 44 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)

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Artur Zieliński

, Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska

, Grzegorz Rachlewicz

and Krzysztof Jarzyna

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