Recent increase in Antarctic Peninsula ice core uranium concentrations

• Published in: Atmospheric Environment
• Main Authors: Potocki, Mariusz, Mayewski, Paul A., Kurbatov, Andrei V., Simões, Jefferson C., Dixon, Daniel A., Goodwin, Ian, Carleton, Andrew M., Handley, Michael J., Jaña, Ricardo, Korotkikh, Elena V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Detroit; Antarc*; ice core
• Online Access: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/f85a9b2b-f3ba-4fec-8ab1-34f85a4ea7f3; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.06.010; https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/files/62372244/Publisher%20version%20(open%20access).pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84974623798&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Understanding the distribution of airborne uranium is important because it can result in both chemical and radiological toxicity. Ice cores offer the most robust reconstruction of past atmospheric levels of toxic substances. Here we present the first sub-annually dated, continuously sampled ice core...