Exploring former subglacial Hodgson Lake, Antarctica. Paper II: palaeolimnology

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Hodgson, Dominic A., Roberts, Stephen J., Bentley, Michael J., Carmichael, Emma L., Smith, James A., Verleyen, Elie, Vyverman, Wim, Geissler, Paul, Leng, Melanie J., Sanderson, David C.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Glaciology; Biology and Microbiology; Earth Sciences; Chemistry; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Hodgson; Hodgson Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8453/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.014

Direct exploration of subglacial lakes buried deep under the Antarctic Ice Sheet has yet to be achieved. However, at retreating margins of the ice sheet, there are a number of locations where former subglacial lakes are emerging from under the ice but remain perennially ice covered. One of these lak...