Distribution and sources of rare earth elements in sediments of the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas

• Published in: Polar Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Rare earth elements; Marine sediment; Grain size; Chukchi sea; East Siberian Sea; Chukchi Sea; Bering Strait; New Siberian Islands; Chukchi; lena river; Polar Science
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=15628; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00015523/

Using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), the distribution of rare-earth elements (REE) at the surface and Holocene sediments of the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas was studied in two cores of up to 8.5 ka in age. The total REE concentration of the surface sediments of the Chukchi...