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Micrometeorites from the Novaya Zemlya Ice Sheet

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A northern part of the Novaya Zemlya ice sheet gives a possibility to sample a vast number of micrometeorites due to their concentration at the passive margin. Collected cryoconite sample contain numerous micrometeorites. Among them cosmic spherules of different types, unmelted fine-grained and coarse-grained, scoriaceous and relict grain bearing chondritic micrometeorites, and achondrite micrometeorites are present. Some micrometeorites demonstrate strong terrestrial alteration but overwhelming majority do not show them excluding some effects like dissolution of olivine grains at the periphery of cosmic spherules, partial oxidation and disappearance of metal and possible removal of a number of mobile elements. The collection is biased; comparing to unbiased Antarctic collections it is depleted in fine grained micrometeorites but it is compensated by a possibility to separate out a large number of coarse grained micrometeorites.

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This work is conducted under the GEOKHI RAS state assignment. The author is grateful to Dr. F. Brandstätter, Dr. J. Raitala, and the staff of the Centre for Material Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland for their help. The author acknowledges the collective of the North hydrometeorological survey and the former chief of the survey L. Yu. Vasilyev, the former capitan of the ship “Mikhail Somov” Yu. A. Nasteko, and the crew of the “Russian Arctic” National park at the “Cap of Desire” polar station.

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Badyukov, D.D. (2023). Micrometeorites from the Novaya Zemlya Ice Sheet. In: Kolotov, V.P., Bezaeva, N.S. (eds) Advances in Geochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09883-3_17

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