Carbon Budget and Cycling in Perennially Ice–Covered Lake Untersee, East Antarctica

• Main Author: Marsh, Nicole
• Other Authors: Clark, Ian
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2019
• Subjects: limnology; geochemistry; isotope chemistry; East Antarctica; Kya; Untersee; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39896; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-24135

Perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee is one of the largest (8.7 km2) and deepest (~160 m) freshwater lakes in East Antarctica. Water mass balance of Lake Untersee shows it receives ~ 45% of its annual input from melting of the glacial–wall beneath the ice–cover and ~55% from subglacial meltwater; w...