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ANTARCTICA

Awesome columnar basalt covered by liquen

Seems like a baked zone or any other hydrothermal by-product

A carbonate-rich paleosol covered by a +-2m thick lava flow
It goes much deeper than that. around 170cm deep.

A closer look.
There are some redoximorphic features, particularly in the greenish horizon, such as the reddish/orange Iron concentration spots

A big prismatic-like ped taken from a paleosol profile from the previous photo

Ash - lava sucession

Think weathering rinds on a porphyritic basalt

Right at the Ecology Glacier

Overview from King George Island

Ecology Glacier - King George Island

Frontal moraine from the Ecology Glacier

Initial stages of soil formation - Hyperskeletic Cryosol

More advanced stage - Cambic Cryosol

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