Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. ...

• Main Authors: Rutishauser, Anja, Blankenship, Donald D, Sharp, Martin, Skidmore, Mark L, Greenbaum, Jamin S, Grima, Cyril, Schroeder, Dustin M, Dowdeswell, Julian A, Young, Duncan A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018
• Subjects: 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Arctic; Devon Ice Cap; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.26064; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278707

Subglacial lakes are unique environments that, despite the extreme dark and cold conditions, have been shown to host microbial life. Many subglacial lakes have been discovered beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, but no spatially isolated water body has been documented as hypersaline....