Micrometeorites from the South Pole Water Well

Data Contributors TAYLOR, SUSAN Parameters ROCKS/MINERALS > METEORITES > MICROMETEORITES Instruments ELECTRON MICROPROBES SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES SEDIMENT TRAPS

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Micrometeorites dated between 1100 A.D. to 1500 A.D. were collected from the bottom of the South Pole Water Well in December 1995. Element analyses of 181 cosmic glass spherule and micrometeorite samples are in ASCII text and Excel spreadsheet format. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images of the spherules and micrometeorites are in TIFF format. Data are available via ftp.

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Susan Taylor. 2002. Micrometeorites from the South Pole Water Well. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5R49NQK.

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