Eolian deposition of trace elements onto Taylor Valley Antarctic glaciers

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1897-1904

  Fortner, Sarah K ^a,b   Berry Lyons, W ^a,b   Olesik, John W ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Earth Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; DRY VALLEY; ELEMENT CHEMISTRY; EOLIAN DEPOSITION; EOLIAN DUST; MINERAL DUST; POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS; PRIMARY SOURCES; PROGLACIAL STREAMS; ROSS SEA; SNOW CHEMISTRY; SOLUBLE SALTS;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; DUST; GLACIERS; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MOLYBDENUM; SNOW; TIN;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIOLOGY; HEAVY METAL; MAGNITUDE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SALT; SNOW; SOLUBILIZATION; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TAYLOR VALLEY;

EID: 80555155540     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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