Lakes

Iodine content and I-129 isotopic composition in McMurdo lake-bottom sediments

Abstract: 

As part of a collaborative investigation between researchers at Rice University, Arkansas State University, University of Rochester, and Ohio State University, lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys were sampled at discreet depth intervals during the 2005-2006 field season.  Sample splits were subsequently analyzed for chemical and isotopic composition of both gases and dissolved  ions, as well as dissolved organic carbon. In addition, cryogenic salts were sampled in the surrounding lake shores in order to determine the salt sources. Gravity cores were also obtained and the pore waters were collected by centrifuging the wet sediment. 
 
Presented  in this file is the total iodine content and I-129 isotopic composition of lake-bottom sediments from Lakes Joyce and Fryxell. An attempt was made to determine the  iodine and chlorine isotopic content  of gypsum cored from the bottom of Lake Vanda, but the total iodine content was below detection.
            

LTER Core Areas: 

Dataset ID: 

6002

Associated Personnel: 

608
609

Short name: 

snyder_iodinesed

Data sources: 

ANCILLARY_SNYDER_IODINESED

Methods: 

Waters were sampled by first drilling through the ice and then lowering a Go-Flo bottle to the indicated depths. Retrieved samples were then spit into separate containers for analysis. Following the sampling of water, a shallow gravity corer with plastic lining was  attached to steel cable  and lowered through the ice hole and down to the lake bottom. The corer was dropped the final 3 meters. Core recovery ranged from only a few centimeters to 25 centimeters. Once recovered, the sediments were stoppered and transported vertically to Crary Laboratory at McMurdo station. Sediment was separated along several intervals of each core and sediment and pore waters were separated by centrifugation.  
 
Sediment samples were shipped to Rice University where they were freeze dried and then powdered. Iodine was volatilized from the samples using a pyrohydrolysis apparatus at 900 degrees Celsius, and the vapors were trapped in a solution of tetramethylammonium hydroxide. The trapped iodine was diluted then analyzed for stable I-127 at the ICP-MS facility of Cin-Ty Lee at Rice University. Methods for analysis are described in: Schnetger, B., and Muramatsu, Y., Determination of the halogens, with special reference to iodine, in geological and biological samples using pyrohydrolysis for preparation of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and ion chromatography for measurement, Analyst, 121:1627-1631.
                    

Maintenance: 

This dataset was created Oct 1, 2008 by MCM-LTER information manager (Chris Gardner) after email discussion with PI Glen Snyder.
 
In 2014, this metadata was enhanced using the Drupal Ecological Information Management System (Inigo San Gil)
 
Metadata completed in 2016

Additional information: 

FUNDING: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0440686

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