Bockheim JG. 1979. Properties and relative age of soils of southwestern Cumberland peninsula, Baffin island, N.W.T., Canada. Arctic and Alpine Research 11: 289-306.
This author sampled soils from more than 60 sites on the Cumberland peninsula of Baffin Island, mostly near the hamlet of Pangnirtung. This covered soils from two tundra vegetations (Dwarf shrub-sedge-moss-lichen on lowlands and coastal, stony sedge-moss-lichen in highlands and northern fjords) and the Polar Desert of Baffin island. The tundra soils ranged from mesic to subxeric, while the desert near Penny icecap was xeric. A similar gradient driven by latitude rather than altitude is referenced in Tedrow (1973).
Descriptions are made of the pH and various exchangeable and free minerals in the soils, along with how those components change with depth in each area. pH increases with depth, for example, especially in the Polar Desert. Phosphorus was found in surprisingly high levels in all soils. The active layer, or at least the layer above the permafrost, is much deeper than found on Ellesmere island, and appears to be deeper than 1m everywhere studied in this paper.
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