The developmental stages of an accumulative cone of
dry valley as an indication of change in natural environment conditions (Western Pomerania).
The McMurdo
Dry Valleys (MCM), Antarctica, harbor numerous perennially ice-covered lakes in our planet's coldest and driest desert (Priscu et al., 1998).
The
Dry Valley area where they were taken by helicopter from their camp at McMurdo/Scott Base Station, about 60 miles away, is snow-free although surrounded by ice shelves.
Ecosystems in cold, dry locations on Earth, such as the Antarctic
dry valleys, provide examples of how life on early Mars might have survived and where to look for fossils.
With an increased awareness of the importance of water in these Cold Desert soils, some attention has been given to the characteristics of summer soil moisture values and how these vary on a geographic basis within the
Dry Valley region (Balks et al.
The biomass and metabolic activity of the ahumic
Dry Valley soils are considered the lowest of any soil ecosystem, and environmental constraints are at the limits to life for many groups of organisms (Friedmann 1993).
His novels Derevnya (1910; translated as The Village, 1923) and Sukhodol (1911; translated as
Dry Valley, 1935), written in the restrained " classical " style of Turgenev, Goncharov, or Chekhov, depict the stagnation of life in provincial Russia.
(8) Not lacking in confidence, Taylor would do everything he could in the years that followed to make sure the
Dry Valley and the glacier that flowed into it took his name.