Preservation of glaciochemical time-series in snow and ice from the Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-360

  Grumet, Nancy S ^a,d   Wake, Cameron P ^a,d   Zielinski, Greg A ^a,d   Fisher, David ^b   Koerner, Roy ^b   Jacobs, John D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW; SOLVENTS; TIME SERIES; GEOPHYSICS; ICE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BAFFIN ISLANDS; GLACIOCHEMICAL RECORDS; ICE-CAPS; ION CONCENTRATIONS; ION MIGRATION; SNOW AND ICE; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS;

ICE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIOCHEMICAL TIME SERIES;

GLACIOCHEMICAL TIME SERIES; ICE CHEMISTRY;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, BAFFIN ISLAND;

EID: 0032004285     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03787     Document Type: Article

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