Radium 228 and Radium 226 in surface water of the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea

• Main Authors: Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M, Kühne, Stephan, Wahsner, Monika, Höltzen, Heike, Frank, Markus, Ekwurzel, Brenda, Mensch, Manfred, Rachold, Volker
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2003
• Subjects: 4387-1; 4397-1; 4405-1; 4414-1; 4416-1; 4418-1; ARK-IX/4; AWI_MarGeoChem; AWI_Paleo; AWI_PerDyn; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; BC; Box corer; Calculated; DEPTH; water; DM49; Dmitry Mendeleev; Elevation of event; Event label; Gamma-ray spectrometry; HAND; Isotope ratio mass spectrometry; Jenissei; KAL_R; Kasten corer RUS; L1; L2; L3; Laptev Sea System; Latitude of event; Lena99_1; Lena99_2; Lena99_3; Lena-Delta1999; Longitude of event; LSS; M15; M92; Marine Geochemistry @ AWI; Men4377-1; Men4380-1; Men4384-1; Men4387-1; Men4392-1; Men4395-1; Men4397-1; Men4398-1; Men4400-1; Men4402-1; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Laptev Sea; Kara Sea; Rus’; Yenisey; Baydaratskaya bay; laptev
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.60021; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.60021

The surface water in the Transpolar Drift in the Arctic Ocean has a strong signature of 228Ra. In an earlier study of 228Ra in the open Arctic we showed that the major 228Ra source had to be in the Siberian shelf seas, but only a single shelf station was published so far. Here we investigate the sou...