Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes

• Main Authors: Siegert M., Ellis-Evans J., Tranter M., Mayer C., Petit J., Salamatin A., Priscu J.
• Format: Review
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; Lake Vostok; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://openrepository.ru/article?id=172378

Over 70 lakes have now been identified beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Although water from none of the lakes has been sampled directly, analysis of lake ice frozen (accreted) to the underside of the ice sheet above Lake Vostok, the largest of these lakes, has allowed inferences to be made on lake w...