Table 1

Composition of icemelt and sediment from Antarctic icebergs and glaciers.

Sample
Icemelt
% Fe extracted from Sediment

Icebergs
Dissolved Fe (nM)
Ascorbate (%FeA)
Dithionite (%FeD)

S1 (Duplicates)

0.104 0.038
0.88 0.67
Mean
0.65
0.071
0.78
S2
0.16
0.195
0.86
S3
N/A
0.357
1.20
S4 (Duplicates)

0.19 0.104
0.95 0.66
Mean
0.30
0.15
0.81
KG1 (Duplicates)

0.071 0.042
0.33 0.27
Mean
2.2
0.057
0.30
KG2 (Duplicates)

0.057 0.059
0.42 0.84
Mean
0.13
0.058
0.63
Iceberg Mean
0.69 ± 0.87
0.15 ± 0.12
0.76 ± 0.29
Glaciers



T1
0.05
0.029
0.14
T2
0.09
0.020
0.10
T3
3.8
0.029
0.10
C1
2.0
0.023
0.27
Glacier Mean
1.5 ± 1.8
0.023 ± 0.004
0.15 ± 0.05
Iceberg+Glacier Mean
1.0 ± 1.3
0.10 ± 0.11
0.52 ± 0.39

N/A Not available.

Raiswell et al. Geochemical Transactions 2008 9:7   doi:10.1186/1467-4866-9-7