Experimental investigation of the effects of mineral dust on the reproducibility and accuracy of ice core trace element analyses

Chemical Geology

Volumn 286, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 207-221

  Rhodes, Rachael H ^a,b   Baker, Joel A ^a   Millet, Marc Alban ^a   Bertler, Nancy A N ^a,b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Enrichment factors; Ice core; ICP MS; Mineral dust; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CRUSTAL ENRICHMENT; DATA SETS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; ICP-MS; LEACHATES; MINERAL DUST; PALEOCLIMATES; PARTIAL DISSOLUTION; PARTICULATE MATERIALS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; TIME INTERVAL; TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

ACIDIFICATION; CORE SAMPLES; DISSOLUTION; DUST; GRANITE; ICE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IRON ORES; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MASS SPECTROMETERS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RECOVERY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ACIDIFICATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; DUST; ENRICHMENT; FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT; ICE CORE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LEACHATE; LITHOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDE; PHYLLOSILICATE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 79959780045     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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