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Tracing the sources of particles in the East Rongbuk ice core from Mt. Qomolangma

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Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic tracer was applied, for the first time, to identifying the sources of the particles in the East Rongbuk ice core from Mt. Qomalangma (Everest). The results show that the particles in the dirty layers originate mainly from local sources, while the particles in the non-dirty layers are consistent with the features of dust from the arid regions in northwestern India. The HYSPLIT model shows that the air trajectory goes first through northwestern India before reaching the drilling site of ice core when dust storms occur in northwestern India, confirming northwestern India as a possible source of dust in the East Rongbuk ice core.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    JianZhong Xu, ShuGui Hou, JiaWen Ren & DaHe Qin

  2. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    FuKun Chen

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Supported jointly by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB411501), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 90411003) and Hundred Talents Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX3-SW-344)

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Xu, J., Hou, S., Chen, F. et al. Tracing the sources of particles in the East Rongbuk ice core from Mt. Qomolangma. Chin. Sci. Bull. 54, 1781–1785 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0050-5

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