Brief communication: Atmospheric dry deposition of microplastics and mesoplastics in an Antarctic glacier: The case of the expanded polystyrene

• Main Authors: González-Pleiter, Miguel, Lacerot, Gissell, Edo, Carlos, Pablo-Lozoya, Juan, Leganés, Francisco, Fernández-Piñas, Francisca, Rosal, Roberto, Teixeira-de-Mello, Franco
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Collins Glacier; King George Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-261; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-261/

Plastics have been found in marine water and sediments, sea ice, marine invertebrates, and penguins in Antarctica; however, there is no evidence of their presence in Antarctic glaciers. Our pilot study investigated plastic occurrence on two ice surfaces that constitute part of the ablation zone of C...