Black Carbon as a Source of Trace Elements and Nutrients in Ice Sheet of King George Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Vyacheslav Polyakov, Evgeny Abakumov, Bulat Mavlyudov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: organic matter; black carbon; cryoconite; nutrients; Antarctica; Geology; QE1-996.5; King George Island; Fildes; Fildes peninsula; Small Rock; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10110465; https://doaj.org/article/bbd073a271524dd2851d3ae84623152a

Enormous deglaciation in the polar and mountainous regions of the Earth is associated not only with large-scale climatic changes but also with the global transfer of black carbon (BC) microparticles, which accumulate on the surface of glaciers and lead to changes in albedo and the rate of degradatio...