Hydrohalite in cold sea ice: laboratory observations of single crystals, surface accumulations, and migration rates under a temperature gradient, with application to "snowball earth"

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Light, Bonnie ^a   Brandt, Richard E ^a   Warren, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATES; SEA ICE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBLIMATION;

ANHYDROUS CRYSTALS; BRINE INCLUSIONS; DIHYDRATES; FINE POWDERS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MIGRATION RATES; RELATIVE RATES; SALT CRUST; SATURATED SOLUTIONS; SNOWBALL EARTH; SURFACE ACCUMULATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL OCEAN;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRUST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HALITE; LABORATORY METHOD; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEA ICE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUBLIMATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 70349679006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005211     Document Type: Article

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