Hydrological and sedimentological investigation of Radok Lake, Amery Oasis, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Wagner, Bernd, Cremer, Holger
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: AmeryOasis2001/2002; COMPCORE; Composite Core; GC; Gravity corer; Lake Radok; East Antarctica; Lz1007; Lz1007_WS; Lz1010; Lz1012_WS; Lz1012-1; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; Sampling/drilling in lake; SPP1158; Water sampler; UWITEC; WSUWI; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.605211; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.605211

Radok Lake in Amery Oasis, East Antarctica, has a water depth of ca. 360 m, making it the deepest non-subglacial lake in Antarctica. Limnological analyses revealed that the lake had, despite a 3 m thick ice cover, a completely mixed water column during austral summer 2001/2002. High oxygen contents,...