Contributions of an ancient evaporitic-type reservoir to subglacial Lake Vostok chemistry

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 751-765

  De Angelis, M ^a   Petit, J R ^a   Savarino, J ^a   Souchez, R ^b   Thiemens, M H ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion ice; Antarctica; Ice composition; Lake Vostok

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ICE COVER; LAKE; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE VOSTOK;

EID: 2942578928     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.03.023     Document Type: Article

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