Origin of salt in Antarctic saline lake waters through trace element analysis

• Main Authors: Noriyasu Masuda, Shyu Nakaya, Tetsuya Torii
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University 1984
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Pole; Taylor Valley; Wright Valley; Saline Lake; Antarc*; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research; South pole
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1655; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001655/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1655&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

The origin of trace elements in Antarctic saline lake waters is still not clear. Waters of five Antarctic saline lake and ponds in the Wright Valley and the Taylor Valley, and one coastal glacier ice were analyzed by the neutron activation method. Three possible origins, connate sea water, rock weathering and tropospheric aerosol particle, were investigated. The correlations of chemical constituents between the South Pole aerosol particle and the lake and pond waters indicate that trace elements in the Antarctic saline lake and pond waters might have been derived mostly from aerosol particles.