Arsenic record from a 3 m snow pit at Dome Argus, Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Rong, Hua, Shugui, Hou, Yuansheng, Li, Hongxi, Pang, Mayewski, Paul, Sneed, Sharon, Chunlei, An, Handley, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; Indian; Dome Fuji; Dome Argus; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102016000092; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102016000092

Abstract This study presents an arsenic concentration time series from 1964–2009 at Dome Argus, Antarctica. The data show a very large increase in arsenic concentration from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s (by a factor of~22) compared with the values before the mid-1980s. This increase is likely to...