Meteoritic ablation and fusion spherules in Antarctic ice

• Main Authors: Raisbeck, G. M., Yiou, F., Thiel, K., Peters, J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1986
• Subjects: ASTROPHYSICS; Antarctic; Atka; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19860019360

In the course of two Antarctic expeditions in 1980/1981 and 1982/1983 approximately 4 metric tons of documented ice samples were collected from the Atka Bay Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and subsequently shipped for cosmic dust studies. After filtration of the melt water, approximately 700 Antarctic spheru...