Transport of 137Cs And 239,240Pu with Ice-rafted Debris in the Arctic Ocean

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Landa, Edward R., Reimnitz, Erk, Beals, Donna M., Pochkowski, J.M., Winn, Willard G., Rigor, Ignatius
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1998
• Subjects: sea ice; ice-rafted debris; radionuclides; cesium-137; plutonium; glace de mer; débris de transport glaciel; radionucléides; césium 137; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Laptev Sea; Kara Sea; Canada; Franz Josef Land; Severnaya Zemlya; Fosse; Arctic Basin; Arctique*; canada basin; ice pack; laptev; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64098

Ice rafting is the dominant mechanism responsible for the transport of fine-grained sediments from coastal zones to the deep Arctic Basin. Therefore, the drift of ice-rafted debris (IRD) could be a significant transport mechanism from the shelf to the deep basin for radionuclides originating from nu...