Ice cover, landscape setting, and geological framework of Lake Vostok, East Antarctica

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 195-210

  Studinger, Michael ^a   Bell, Robin E ^a   Karner, Garry D ^a   Tikku, Anahita A ^a   Holt, Joqhn W ^b   Morse D L , David L ^b   Richter, Thomas G ^b   Kempf, Scott D ^b   Peters, Matthew E ^b   Blankenship, Donald D ^b   Sweeney, Ronald E ^c   Rystrom, Victoria L ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne geophysics; East Antarctica; Gravity; Lake Vostok; Magnetics; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; GRAVITY SURVEY; ICE COVER; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; MAGNETIC SURVEY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0037428115     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01041-5     Document Type: Article

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