Rare Moss-Built Microterraces in a High-Altitude, Acid Mine Drainage-Polluted Stream (Cordillera Negra, Peru)

The Rio Santiago in the Cordillera Negra of Peru is severely contaminated by acid mine drainage in its headwaters. In a strongly acid stream, at about 3800 m above sea level (masl), microterraces were found with terrace walls built up of dead moss, with encrustations and interstitial fine, creamy se...

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Autores principales: Sevink, Jan, Verstraten, Jacobus M., Kooijman, Annemieke M., Loayza-Muro, Raul A., Hoitinga, Leo, Palomino, Edwin J., Jansen, Boris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26028791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-015-2390-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26028791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-015-2390-x

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