Aeolian sediment transport and deposition in a modern high‐latitude glacial marine environment

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: Chewings, Jane M., Atkins, Cliff B., Dunbar, Gavin B., Golledge, Nicholas R.
• Other Authors: Lancaster, Nick, New Zealand Ministry for Science and Innovation, The Dominion Post Scholarship in Antarctic Research, VUW Antarctic Research Centre Endowed Development Fund, Geoscience Society of New Zealand
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; McMurdo Dry Valleys; McMurdo Ice Shelf; McMurdo Sound; Ross Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12108; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fsed.12108; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/sed.12108; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/sed.12108

Abstract Aeolian sand and dust in polar regions are transported offshore over sea ice and released to the ocean during summer melt. This process has long been considered an important contributor to polar sea floor sedimentation and as a source of bioavailable iron that triggers vast phytoplankton bl...