Source of Lake Vostok Cations Constrained with Strontium Isotopes

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Lyons, Berry W., Welch, Kathleen A., Priscu, John C., Tranter, Martyn, Royston-Bishop, George
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Glacial Lake; Lake Vostok; Ner; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/13325

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...