First characterization and dating of East Antarctic bedrock inclusion form subglacial Lake Vostok accretion ice

• Published in: Environmental Chemistry
• Main Authors: DELMONTE, BARBARA, MAGGI, VALTER, Petit, J, Basile Doelsch, I, Lipenkov, V
• Other Authors: Delmonte, B, Maggi, V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CSIRO PUBLISHING 2004
• Subjects: Antarctica; bedrock topography; bottom lakes; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Lake Vostok; Antarc*; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10281/17861; https://doi.org/10.1071/EN04029

The Vostok (East Antarctica, 78°S, 106°E) ice core preserves, below the meteoric ice keeping the climatic memory of the last 420 000 years, ice formed by freezing of subglacial Lake Vostok water. This latter contains some bedrock fragments representing unique samples for the geological investigation...