New insights into the origin and evolution of Lake Vida, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica - A noble gas study in ice and brines
Unlike other lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Lake Vida has a thick (~ 19 m) ice cover sealing a liquid brine body of unusually high salinity (~ 245 g/L) from the atmosphere. To constrain the conditions under which the atypical Lake Vida ice cover formed and evolved, 19 ice samples were...
Published in: | Earth and Planetary Science Letters |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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LSU Digital Commons
2010
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geo_pubs/637 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.034 |