Natural concentrations of lead in ancient Arctic and Antarctic ice

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Ng, Amy, Patterson, Clair
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1981
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Byrd; Byrd Station; Greenland; Lorius; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/44968/; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140416-073902631

Concentrations of Pb and K were determined in a series of veneer layers chiseled in sequence from the outside toward the center of each of the five 1500–5500yr old ice core sections that had been drilled in Greenland and Antarctic ice. They were analogs of very old ice samples analyzed earlier by He...