Chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland
Weathering caused by interaction between glacial sediments and water in exposed moraines needs to be studied to evaluate their possible effects on the global carbon cycle. In this study, moraine ponds, moraine porewaters, and till samples were collected at a moraine adjacent to the Greenland Ice She...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.9909104.v1 2023-05-15T15:52:56+02:00 Chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland L. F. Auqué I. Puigdomenech E.-L. Tullborg M. J. Gimeno K. Grodzinsky K. J. Hogmalm 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9909104.v1 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/Chemical_weathering_in_a_moraine_at_the_ice_sheet_margin_at_Kangerlussuaq_western_Greenland/9909104/1 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2019.1660125 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9909104 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Chemical sciences Ecology FOS Biological sciences Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Inorganic Chemistry dataset Dataset 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9909104.v1 https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2019.1660125 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9909104 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Weathering caused by interaction between glacial sediments and water in exposed moraines needs to be studied to evaluate their possible effects on the global carbon cycle. In this study, moraine ponds, moraine porewaters, and till samples were collected at a moraine adjacent to the Greenland Ice Sheet at Kangerlussuaq. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies of the till show limited evidence of silicate chemical weathering, but the moraine waters have substantial solute concentrations. δ 34 S SO4 and δ 18 O SO4 data indicate that the origin of dissolved sulfate is the oxidation of sulfides, in agreement with the SEM observations. The dissolved HCO 3 − /SO 4 2− molar ratios indicate an uneven balance between sulfuric and carbonic acid weathering; C-isotope data indicate that some of the CO 2 originates from organic carbon mineralization. Ion–ion plots provide evidence of carbonate weathering and of the formation of secondary gypsum and calcite through evaporation and (or) cryoconcentration. The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios in the waters correlate with the corresponding till samples, supporting the local origin of the dissolved strontium, which is higher in the waters than in the till due to the selective weathering of biotite. The data evidence a large degree of chemical weathering in moraines promoted by large rock–water ratios and by the hydraulic isolation created by the frozen till. The high P CO2 in the studied moraine waters indicates that they may represent a previously underestimated CO 2 source. Dataset Carbonic acid Greenland Ice Sheet Kangerlussuaq DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland Kangerlussuaq ENVELOPE(-55.633,-55.633,72.633,72.633) |
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Weathering caused by interaction between glacial sediments and water in exposed moraines needs to be studied to evaluate their possible effects on the global carbon cycle. In this study, moraine ponds, moraine porewaters, and till samples were collected at a moraine adjacent to the Greenland Ice Sheet at Kangerlussuaq. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies of the till show limited evidence of silicate chemical weathering, but the moraine waters have substantial solute concentrations. δ 34 S SO4 and δ 18 O SO4 data indicate that the origin of dissolved sulfate is the oxidation of sulfides, in agreement with the SEM observations. The dissolved HCO 3 − /SO 4 2− molar ratios indicate an uneven balance between sulfuric and carbonic acid weathering; C-isotope data indicate that some of the CO 2 originates from organic carbon mineralization. Ion–ion plots provide evidence of carbonate weathering and of the formation of secondary gypsum and calcite through evaporation and (or) cryoconcentration. The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios in the waters correlate with the corresponding till samples, supporting the local origin of the dissolved strontium, which is higher in the waters than in the till due to the selective weathering of biotite. The data evidence a large degree of chemical weathering in moraines promoted by large rock–water ratios and by the hydraulic isolation created by the frozen till. The high P CO2 in the studied moraine waters indicates that they may represent a previously underestimated CO 2 source. |
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Chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland |
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Chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland |
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Chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland |
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Chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland |
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Chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland |
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chemical weathering in a moraine at the ice sheet margin at kangerlussuaq, western greenland |
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