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

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Siegert, Martin J., Ellis-Evans, J. Cynan, Tranter, Martyn, Mayer, Christoph, Petit, Jean-Robert, Salamatin, Andrey, Priscu, John C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2001
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Chemistry; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Lake Vostok; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20286/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20286/1/Siegert2001.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/414603a

Over 70 lakes have now been identi®ed 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 wa...