Establishment of an ice core processing method and analytical procedures for fundamental proxies
- 주제(키워드) Electrical conductivity measurement (ECM) , Fundamental proxies , Ice core processing , Stable water isotopes , Visual stratigraphy (VS)
- 등재 KCI등재, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
- 발행년도 2014
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000098624
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.4217/OPR.2014.36.1.013
초록/요약
We established the first complete ice core processing method and analytical procedures for fundamental proxies, using a 40.2 m long ice core drilled on the Mt. Tsambagarav glacier in the Mongolian Altai mountains in July 2008. The whole core was first divided into two sub ice core sections and the measurements of the visual stratigraphy and electrical conductivity were performed on the surface of these sub core sections. A continuous sequence of samples was then prepared for chemical analyses (stable isotope ratios of oxygen (18O/16O) and hydrogen (2H/1H), soluble ions and trace elements). A total of 29 insoluble dust layers were identified from the measurement of visual stratigraphy. The electrical conductivity measurement (ECM) shows 11 peaks with the current more than 0.8 μA. Comparing the profiles of SO4 2- and Cl-concentrations to correlate with known volcanic eruptions, the first two ECM peaks appear to be linked to the eruptions (January and June 2007) of Kliuchevskoi volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, which supports the reliability of our ECM data. Finally, the composition of stable isotopes (Δ18O and ΔD) shows a well-defined seasonal variation, suggesting that various chemical proxies may have been well preserved in the successive ice layers of Tsambagarav ice core. Our ice core processing method and analytical procedures for fundamental proxies are expected to be used for paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental studies from polar and alpine ice cores.
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