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Climate sensitivity, soil formation, permafrost, glaciers, ornithogenesis.
Antarctic Maritime, as a highly sensitive climate environment, represents a laboratory scenario for soil formation, expressing weathering processes and biogeochemistry under unique conditions on the planet, having as its primary engine the freezing / thawing processes, and primarily the presence permanently frozen soils, called permafrost. Antarctic soils are thus directly linked to thermal phenomena that cause ablation of glaciers, causing relief modeling processes and structured pedological implantation. Descriptive statistical analysis and the results of the principal component analysis demonstrated that Antarctic soils are shallow and incipient, however, ornithogenic soil are the deep soils, and bird activity is the most important chemical weathering chemical.