Limnological Chemistry, Ion Concentrations and Silicon

As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in the McMurdo
Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a systematic aqueous geochemical sampling program has been
undertaken. A series of terrestrial water samples have been collected and analyzed for
major ion chemistry by ion chromatography. The concentrations of ions cover a wide range
of total dissolved solids from fresh to hypersaline lake waters. This dataset shows
concentrations of lithium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride,
bromide, silicon, fluoride, SO4, and dissolved inorganic carbon found in various depths
of Taylor Valley lakes.