The Contribution of Synchrotron Light for the Characterization of Atmospheric Mineral Dust in Deep Ice Cores: Preliminary Results from the Talos Dome Ice Core (East Antarctica)

• Published in: Condensed Matter
• Main Authors: Giovanni Baccolo, Giannantonio Cibin, Barbara Delmonte, Dariush Hampai, Augusto Marcelli, Elena Di Stefano, Salvatore Macis, Valter Maggi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018
• Subjects: atmospheric mineral dust; ice core; Antarctica; paleoclimate; synchrotron radiation; X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy; X-ray fluorescence; iron geochemistry; Physics; QC1-999; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Talos Dome; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat3030025; https://doaj.org/article/4ce54ccf66e04c379f53789d36383282

The possibility of finding a stratigraphically intact ice sequence with a potential basal age exceeding one million years in Antarctica is giving renewed interest to deep ice coring operations. But the older and deeper the ice, the more impactful are the post-depositional processes that alter and mo...