Cryogenic gypsum collected during PS106-1/2 in 2017

• Main Authors: Wollenburg, Jutta E, Iversen, Morten Hvitfeldt
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: cryogenic gypsum; morphology; settling velocity; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Nansen Basin; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.916035; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.916035

To date observations on a single location indicate that cryogenic gypsum (Ca[SO4]·2H2O) may constitute an efficient but hitherto overlooked ballasting mineral enhancing the efficiency of the biological carbon pump in the Arctic Ocean. In June-July 2017 we sampled cryogenic gypsum under pack-ice in t...