Ion concentrations in discrete water column samples collected from lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (1991-2019, ongoing)

• Main Authors: Priscu, John, Welch, Kathleen, Lyons, W. Berry
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2022
• Subjects: McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/31f7354d1a05679eb3ce7c384c6e2b22; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-mcm.62.12

As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic aqueous geochemical sampling program has been undertaken. A series of terrestrial water samples have been collected and analyzed for major ion chemistry by ion chromatography. The concentrations of ions cover a wide range of total dissolved solids from fresh to hypersaline lake waters. This dataset shows concentrations of lithium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, bromide, silicon, fluoride, SO4, found in various depths of Taylor Valley lakes.