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The Ellsworth Mountains occur along the southern edge of the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf in West Antarctica (Fig. 2.1) and are subdivided by the Minnesota Glacier into the Heritage Range to the east and the Sentinel Range to the west (Fig. 10.1).
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This research was partially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Science, and the Brazilian Antarctic Program.
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Bockheim, J.G., Schaefer, C.E.G.R. (2015). Soils of Ellsworth Land, the Ellsworth Mountains. In: Bockheim, J. (eds) The Soils of Antarctica. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05497-1_10
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