@article{866d7b15e1554fd6b820989e049db8a2,
title = "Tafoni show postglacial and modern wind azimuths that are similar at Bunger Hills",
abstract = "The directions of strong winds are important for the distribution of marine salt spray, rock weathering, lake chemistry and the distribution of vegetation in Bunger Hills, a coastal ice-free oasis in East Antarctica. Present-day strong winds (> 10 m s−1) dominantly blow from 118 ± 21 degrees true (°T; ± 1 SD). Orientated tafoni (weathering pits) might form in bedrock surfaces by salt and ice crystallization, thermal stress and saltating sand particles, recording the orientation of a strongly directional wind field since the last deglaciation, which commenced > 30 000 years ago. The orientations of these tafoni, at 101 ± 18°T for 686 measurements at 28 sites, are indistinguishable from the direction of modern-day strong winds (> 10 m s−1), indicating that the orientation of the slope of the ice sheet has been stable throughout the last 10 000 years during the Holocene.",
keywords = "biogeography, erosion, Holocene, palaeowind, sea salt",
author = "Gore, {Damian B.} and Leishman, {Michelle R.}",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1017/S095410201900035X",
language = "English",
volume = "32",
pages = "130--137",
journal = "Antarctic Science",
issn = "0954-1020",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press (CUP)",
number = "2",
}