The Polar Sulfur Cycle in the Werenskioldbreen, Spitsbergen: Possible Implications for Understanding the Deposition of Sulfate Minerals in the North Polar Region of Mars

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Szynkiewicz, Anna A., Modelska, Magdalena, Buczynski, Sebastian, Borrok, David M., Merrison, Jonathan Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholars' Mine 2013
• Subjects: fine grained sediment; glacial erosion; gypsum; Mars; melting; oxidation; polar region; Precambrian; proglacial environment; sulfur cycle; Arctic; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Geology; Jan Mayen; Werenskioldbreen; glacier; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/geosci_geo_peteng_facwork/468; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.12.041

In this study we investigated the polar cycling of sulfur (S) associated with the Werenskioldbreen glacier in Spitsbergen (Svalbard). Sulfide-derived S comprised 0.02-0.42 wt% of the fine-grained fraction of proglacial sediments. These sediments originated from glacial erosion of Precambrian sulfide...