Elemental compositions of smectites reveal detailed sediment provenance changes during glacial and interglacial periods: The Southern Drake Passage and Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Park, Young Kyu, Lee, Jae Il, Jung, Jaewoo, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Yoo, Kyu-Cheul, Kim, Jinwook
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Ross Sea; King George Island; Drake Passage; South Shetland Islands; Bellingshausen Sea; Weddell; Alexander Island; Larsen Ice Shelf; Beethoven peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523678/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523678/1/minerals-09-00322.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3390/min9050322

Variations in clay mineral assemblages have been widely used to understand changes in sediment provenance during glacial and interglacial periods. Smectite clay minerals, however, have a range of various elemental compositions that possibly originated from multiple different sources. Therefore, it m...