Osmium concentration and isotope composition at ultra-low levels in polar ice and snow

• Main Authors: Mukul Sharma, Ji-Hye Seo, Erich Osterberg, Brian Jackson
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2018
• Subjects: Trace elements; Ice sheets; Meteorite; Antarctic; Ross Sea; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:2c04be1f-4be5-4189-8218-9077efb6fc26

The abundances of Platinum Group Elements (PGEs: Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, Osmium, Iridium, and Platinum) are high in meteorites and extremely low in terrestrial rocks and water and accumulations of mainly platinum and iridium in ancient polar archives have been argued to trace terrestrial (con...