Ellsworth Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica: A review of its history and recent field campaigns

• Main Authors: Ross, N., Siegert, M.J., Rivera, A., Bentley, M.J., Blake, David, Capper, Linda, Clarke, Rachel, Cockell, C.S., Corr, Hugh, Harris, W., Hill, Christopher, Hindmarsh, Richard, Hodgson, Dominic, King, Edward, Lamb, H., Maher, B., Makinson, Keith, Mowlem, M., Parnell, J., Pearce, David, Priscu, J., Smith, Andy, Tait, Andrew, Tranter, M., Wadham, J.L., Whalley, W.B., Woodward, J.
• Other Authors: Siegert, Martin J, Kennicutt, Mahlon C., II, Bindschadler, Robert A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands; Ellsworth Subglacial Lake; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17085/; http://www.agu.org/books/gm/v192/

Ellsworth Subglacial Lake, first observed in airborne radio echo sounding data acquired in 1978, is located within a long, deep subglacial trough within the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands of West Antarctica. Geophysical surveys have characterized the lake, its subglacial catchment, and the thickness...