Uranium record from a 3 m snow pit at Dome Argus, East Antarctica

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Zou, Xiang, Hou, Shugui, Liu, Ke, Yu, Jinhai, Zhang, Wangbin, Pang, Hongxi, Hua, Rong, Mayewski, Paul
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2018
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dome Argus; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6209333/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30379958; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206598

Understanding the distribution and transport of Uranium is important because it can lead to both chemical and radiological toxicity. This study presents the Uranium concentrations time series from 1964 to 2009 obtained from a 3 m deep snow pit at Dome Argus, East Antarctic Plateau. The data shows th...