Effects of glacial meltwater inflows and moat freezing on mixing in an ice-covered antarctic lake as interpreted from stable isotope and tritium distributions

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 966-976

  Miller, Laurence G ^a   Aiken, George R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 0029796504     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1996.41.5.0966     Document Type: Article

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