Diatoms at >5000 meters in the Quelccaya Summit Dome Glacier, Peru

• Main Authors: Fritz, Sherilyn C., Brinson, Bruce E., Billups, W. E., Thompson, Lonnie G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2015
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Dome Glacier; Ice cap; ice core
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/523; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geosciencefacpub/article/1530/viewcontent/FritzArcticAntarcticAlpineResearch2015Diatoms.pdf

Diatoms were found in late Holocene age ice-core samples recovered from the Quelccaya Summit Dome in the tropical Andes of Peru and were imaged by environmental scanning electron microscopy and identified. Freshwater diatoms in the genera Hantzschia, Pinnularia, and Aulacoseira were the most common...