Exploring Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments

• Main Authors: Priscu, J. C., Kennicutt, M. C., Bell, Robin E., Bulat, S. A., Ellis-Evans, J. C., Lukin, V. V., Petit, J.-R., Powell, R. D., Siegert, M. J., Tabacco, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Oceanography; Submarine geology; Geophysics; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Lake Vostok; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BV7S55

While subglacial lakes have been suspected, and speculated about, for more than 50 years, recent analyses of historical and new data have shown that liquid water environments are common beneath the vast Antarctic Ice Sheet. Airborne radar surveys have now documented more than 145 subglacial lakes, t...