Source of Lake Vostok Cations Constrained with Strontium Isotopes

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: William Berry Lyons, Kathleen Ann Welch, John C. Priscu, Martyn Tranter, George Royston-Bishop
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
• Subjects: Strontium Isotopes; chemical weathering; Lake Vostok; accretion ice; sub-glacial; Science; Q; Glacial Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00078; https://doaj.org/article/9cb1fba8b7584ed1b369ecf91c2eb2d3

Lake Vostok is the largest sub-glacial lake in Antarctica. The primary source of our current knowledge regarding the geochemistry and biology of the lake comes from the analysis of refrozen lake water associated with ice core drilling. Several sources of dissolved ions and particulate matter to the...