Lake Vostok behaves like a 'captured lake' and may be near to creating an Antarctic jökulhlaup

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-7

  Erlingsson, Ulf ^a  

^a Erlingsson Sub Aquatic Surveys   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL LAKE; JOKULHLAUP; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE VOSTOK;

EID: 33644838084     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2006.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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