Lake Vostok Behaves Like A 'Captured Lake' and May Be Near To Creating An Antarctic Jokulhlaup
The most well known sub-glacial lake is probably Grímsvötn under Vatnajökul, Iceland, from where jökulhlaups regularly burst forth. It is created by thermal melting under the ice cap. The Antarctic Lake Vostok, on the other hand, is considered to be located over a region with normal geothermal heat...
| Published in: | Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Zenodo
2006
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3676.2006.00278.x |