ShareAntarctica: stirring the icy waters.
Author(s) : BENTLEY C. R.
Type of article: Article
Summary
The East Antarctic ice sheet sliding over Lake Vostok may be concealing ancient life in the waters below. Siegert et al. trace radar reflections from internal layers within the ice to reveal how the ice first melts from the base of the ice sheet, then later refreezes to it. This process presumably drives water circulation in the lake, which could be important for any microbial life.
Details
- Original title: Antarctica: stirring the icy waters.
- Record ID : 2001-0559
- Languages: English
- Subject: Environment, General information
- Source: Nature - vol. 403 - n. 6770
- Publication date: 2000/02/10
- Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.
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Indexing
- Themes: General information on environment (climate change, ozone depletion…)
- Keywords: Ice; Microbiology; Antarctic; Water
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- Languages : English
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- Date : 2002/03/21
- Languages : English
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- Date : 2002/02/21
- Languages : English
- Source: Nature - vol. 415 - n. 6874
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Switch of flow direction in an Antarctic ice st...
- Author(s) : CONWAY H., CATANIA G., RAYMOND C. F., et al.
- Date : 2002/10/03
- Languages : English
- Source: Nature - vol. 419 - n. 6906
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Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of...
- Author(s) : BELL R. E., BLANKENSHIP D. D., FINN C. A., MORSE D. L., SCAMBOZ T. A., BROZENA J. M., HODGE S. M.
- Date : 1998/07/02
- Languages : English
- Source: Nature - vol. 394 - n. 6688
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