Dartmouth Greenland Wind Soil Study (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth Greenland Wind Soil Study

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Ruth Heindel, a Ph.D. student in Dartmouth's Department of Earth Sciences, and her colleagues found that winds blowing off the Greenland Ice Sheet are eroding soil and vegetation in the surrounding tundra.

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Ruth Heindel

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