Jim:  Try some publications by Lawrence Miller or others working out of the
USGS Menlo Park Water Resources Research Office some years ago on water
and/or sediment chemistry of Antarctic Lakes.

Happy hunting.
Christine Massey


>Greetings,
>        I was intrigued by an article that I recently read with respect to
>its' application as a proxy for ancient basin processes-Burton, H. R., and
>Barker, R. J., 1978, Sulfur chemistry and microbiological fractionation of
>sulfur isotopes in a saline Antarctic lake: Geomicrobiological Journal. I
>have seen it referenced several times in this context. I am particularly
>interested in additional sulfur isotope geochemistry that may have
>been done, or that may be currently ongoing, in isolated/restricted
>remnant marine antarctic lakes similar to that described in the article.
>Sediment chemistry would be of greatest interest as a record of temporal
>progression of isotopic values during basin evolution. If anyone can help
>me with references I'd be very grateful. Until then I'll retire to the
>library to begin the search.
>
>Jim Luepke
>University of Missouri-Columbia

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