Enhanced analysis of stratified climate archives through upgrade of Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Quadrupole to Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry?

• Main Author: Wilhelms-Dick, Dorothee
• Other Authors: Miller, Heinrich, Kasten, Sabine
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2008
• Subjects: ICP-MS; Time of Flight; laser ablation; solid and liquid samples; ice cores; Antarctica; mineral dust; trace element analysis; 550; 550 Earth sciences and geology; ddc:550; Frozen Lake; Antarc*; ice core
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/2526; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-diss000110802

The analysis of the inorganic composition of climatic archives provides proxies for climate reconstruction. For many applications commercially available inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-Q-MS) systems are used for investigations. One aim of this thesis was to test the lase...