Hydrochemistry of Ice-Covered Lakes and Ponds in the Untersee Oasis (Queen Maud Land, Antarctica)

• Main Author: Faucher, Benoit
• Other Authors: Lacelle, Denis
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2021
• Subjects: Ice-covered lakes; Antarctica; Hydrology; Hydrochemistry; Isotope Geochemistry; Freezing; Antarctic; Glacial Lake; Lake May; McMurdo Dry Valleys; New Zealand; Obersee; Queen Maud Land; Scott Base; The Antarctic; Untersee; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42306; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-26528

Several thousand coastal perennially ice-covered oligotrophic lakes and ponds have been identified on the Antarctic continent. To date, most hydrochemical studies on Antarctica’s ice-covered lakes have been undertaken in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (more than 20 lakes/ponds studied since 1957) because o...