Chemical weathering and solute export by meltwater in a maritime Antarctic glacier basin

• Published in: Biogeochemistry
• Main Authors: Hodson, Andy, Heaton, Tim, Langford, Harry, Newsham, Kevin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; Tuva; Antarc*; Cold-based glacier
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9800/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9800/1/Biogeochem_in_revision.pdf; http://www.springerlink.com/content/100244/

Solute yields, laboratory dissolution data and both chemical and isotopic markers of rock weathering reactions are used to characterise the biogeochemistry of glacial meltwaters draining a maritime Antarctic glacier. We find that delayed flowpaths through ice-marginal talus and moraine sediments are...