Discovery of natural Perchlorate in the Antarctic Dry Valleys and its global implications

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2360-2364

  Kounaves, Samuel P ^a   Stroble, Shannon T ^a   Anderson, Rachel M ^a   Moore, Quincy ^a   Catling, David C ^b   Douglas, Susanne ^c   Mckay, Christopher P ^d   Ming, Douglas W ^e   Smith, Peter H ^f   Tamppari, Leslie K ^c   Zent, Aaron P ^d  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; DRY VALLEY; GLOBAL SCALE; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; NATURAL SOURCES; POLAR ICE SHEETS; POLAR REGIONS;

LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

NITRATE; PERCHLORATE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ICE; ICE SHEET; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; PERCHLORATE; POLAR REGION; REDUCTION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ICE SHEET; LAND BIOME; SOIL; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CHLORIDES; ECOSYSTEM; ICE; NITRATES; PERCHLORIC ACID; SOIL;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 77950394669     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9033606     Document Type: Article

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