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Dispersed Sedimentary Matter in the Marine Cryosystem: Snow–Drifting Ice–Icewater of the Arctic and Antarctic

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A comparative description of sedimentary matter in the snow–ice cover of the Circumpolar Arctic and fast ice of the Antarctic is given. The main distribution patterns of dispersed sedimentary matter in the marine cryosystem of snow–sea ice–ice water of the Arctic and Antarctica are obtained. Sedimentary matter fluxes from the bottom of sea ice to the ocean bottom are calculated.

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The material was processed with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 20-17-00157; C/N-analysis for grant no. 19-17-00234); determination of organic carbon was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-05-00022), and data were interpreted as part of the state task of IO RAS for 2019–2020 (topic no. 0149-2019-0007).

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Novigatsky, A.N., Lisitzin, A.P. & Klyuvitkin, A.A. Dispersed Sedimentary Matter in the Marine Cryosystem: Snow–Drifting Ice–Icewater of the Arctic and Antarctic. Oceanology 60, 643–649 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437020050185

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