Regional variability of diatoms in ice cores from the Antarctic Peninsula and Ellsworth Land, Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Tetzner, Dieter R., Allen, Claire S., Thomas, Elizabeth R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ellsworth Land; Greenland; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530410/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530410/1/tc-16-779-2022.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/779/2022/

The presence of marine microfossils (diatoms) in glacier ice and ice cores has been documented from numerous sites in Antarctica, Greenland, as well as from sites in the Andes and the Altai mountains, and attributed to entrainment and transport by winds. However, their presence and diversity in snow...