Water exchange between the subglacial Lake Vestok and the overlying ice sheet

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6770, 2000, Pages 643-646

  Siegert, Martin J ^a   Kwok, Ron ^b   Mayer, Christoph ^c   Hubbard, Bryn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; LAKE; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; FREEZING; INTERFEROMETER; LAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0343852214     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001049     Document Type: Article

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