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ABSTRACT. Spectral analysis of time series of a c. '7 ± 0.3 year corc, calibrated ror total f3 activity recovered rrom Scntik Glacier (4908 m) Lad akh, Himalaya, yields st:veral recognizable pcriodicities including sub annual, annual, and multi-annual. The time-series, include both chemical data (chloride, sodium, reactive iron, reacti\'c silicate, reactive phosphate, ammonium, bD, be80) and pH) and physical data (density, debris and ice-band locations, and microparticles in size grades 0.50 to 12.7o,um). Source areas for chemical species investigated and general air-mass circu lation defined rrom chemical and physical time-series are discussed to dem onstrate the potential of such studies in the development of paleometeorological data sets rrom remote high-alpine glacierized sites such as the Himalaya