Sediment facies of a paleo-subglacial lake on the Antarctic continentral shelf

• Main Authors: Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kasten, Sabine, Smith, James A, Nitsche, Frank-Oliver, Frederichs, Thomas, Wiers, Steffen, Ehrmann, Werner, Klages, Johann Philipp, Mogollón, José M
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: AWI_Paleo; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Antarctic; Island Bay; Pine Island Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.873755; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.873755

Subglacial lakes are widespread beneath the Antarctic ice sheet but their control on ice sheet dynamics and their ability to harbour life remain poorly characterised. Here we present the evidence for a palaeo-subglacial lake on the Antarctic continental shelf. A distinct sediment facies recovered fr...