Cl-36 in polar ice, rainwater and seawater

Details Cl-36 in polar ice, rainwater and seawater Cl-36 in polar ice, rainwater and seawater

Nov 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980georl...7..983f&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 7, Nov. 1980, p. 983-986.

Physics

Geophysics

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Antarctic Regions, Chlorine, Ice, Nuclear Meteorology, Radioactive Isotopes, Rain, Sea Water, Geophysics, Mass Spectrometers

Scientific paper

Concentrations of the cosmogenic radioisotope Cl-36 in Antarctic ice, rain, and an upper limit of the seawater value are determined using van de Graaff accelerator high energy mass spectrometry. Cl-36 concentrations in Antarctic ice range between 2.5 to 8.7 x 10 to the 6th atoms Cl-36/kg, while those concentrations in samples collected at the Alan Hills ice field locations where meteorites have been brought to the surface by glacial flow and ablation are found to vary by more than a factor of three. This variation is attributed either to the effects of atmospheric mixing and scavenging or to radioactive decay in old ice. The Cl-36 concentration found in a present sample of rainwater is much lower than that reported in samples collected in the early 1960's, suggesting the occurrence of a decrease in the concentration of atmospheric Cl-36 derived from nuclear weapons tests over this time period.

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