McMurdo Dry Valley

Fountain, A.G., Nylen, T., MacClune, K.L., Dana, G.L. 2006. Glacier mass balances (1993-2001), Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 52, 451-462. 

Lancaster, N. 2002. Flux of aeolian sediment in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica a preliminary assessment. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 34, 318-323. 

Nylen, T.H., Fountain, A.G., Doran, P.T. 2004. Climatology of katabatic winds in the McMurdo dry valleys, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, 9. 

Witherow R.A., Lyons W.B., Bertler N.A.N., Welch K.A., Mayewski P.A., Sneed S.B., Nylen T., Handley M.J., Fountain A.G. 2006. The aeolian flux of calcium, chloride, and nitrate to the McMurdo Dry Valleys landscape evidence from snow pit analysis. Antarctic Science, 18, 497-505. 

FIGURE 3 Depth profiles for 14C age and sulfur-to-carbon (S/C) ratios for fulvic acid samples isolated from Lake Fryxell, a permanently ice-covered lake in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (from Aiken et al., 1996). In the upper water column, the fulvic acids have a modern signal. This young fulvic acid derives from perennial algal mats in glacial meltwater streams. At depth, the fulvic acids are quite old (about 3000 years) and are possibly derived from organic material in sediments. The ratio of S/C increases with depth as conditions in the water column become anoxic. 

This paper was supported by the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER project (OPP98-15512) and a NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology... 

Voytek, M. A., B. B. Ward, and J. C. Priscu. 1998. The abundance of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in Lake Bonney, Antarctica determined by immunofluorescence, PCR and in situ hybridization. In Ecosystem Dynamics in a Polar Desert. The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (J. C. Priscu, Ed.), pp. 217—228. Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, DC. 

Lyons WB, Welch KA, Snyder G, Olesik J, Graham EY, Marion CM, Poreda RJ (2005) Halogen geochemistry of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Clues to the origin of solutes and lake evolution. Geochim Cosmochim... 

Lyons W. B., Welch K. A., and Sharma P. (1998) Chlorine-36 in the waters of McMurdo Dry valley lakes, southern Victoria land Antartica revisited. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62, 185-192. 

Nkem, I.N., Wall, D.H., Virginia, R.A. et al. (2006). Wind dispersal of soil invertebrates in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Polar Biology 29, 346-352. 

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Marsh BD, Philipp JR (1996) Three-dimensional magmatic filling of Basement sill revealed by unusual crystal concentrations. Antarctic J US 31(2) 39-40 Marsh BD, Zieg MJ (1997) The Dais layered intrusion A new discovery in the Basement sfil of the McMurdo dry valleys. Antarctic J US 32(5) 18-20... 

De Carlo EH, Green WJ (2002) Rare earths elements in the water column of Lake Vanda, McMurdo dry valleys, Antarctica. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 66(8) 1323-1333... 

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