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Complementary Geochemical, mineralogical and microbiological analyses of materials collected on the Greenland Ice Sheet
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01707

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Abstract:
This dataset comprises of geochemical, mineralogical and microbiological analyses of material collected on the southwestern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2016 and 2017. Stream water, melted ice and snow samples were collected and analysed for carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, cation and anion concentrations, pH, conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS), mineral phase and class abundances and Rare Earth Elements (REE). Microbial community composition was also analysed. In addition, the results of a nutrient incubation experiment are also presented.The data were collected as part of a project investigating drivers of glacial ice algal growth on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

We acknowledge funding from UK Natural Environment Research Council Consortium Grant, Black and Bloom (NE/M020770/1, NE/M021025/1 and NE/S001670/1). LGB and SL acknowledge funding from the German Helmholtz Recruiting Initiative (award number: I-044-16-01). LGB, AMA, and MT were also supported through an ERC Synergy Grant ('Deep Purple' grant # 856416) from the European Research Council (ERC)

Keywords:
Greenland Ice Sheet, albedo, glacier algae, minerals, phosphorus

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McCutcheon, J., Lutz, S., Cook, J., Tedstone, A., Vanderstraeten, A., Wilson, S., Stockdale, A., Bonneville, S., Anesio, A., Yallop, M., McQuaid, J., Tranter, M., & Benning, L. (2023). Complementary Geochemical, mineralogical and microbiological analyses of materials collected on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b27e608b-47f6-40bd-8fcf-bd83085c77ca

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