Cryogenic origin for brine in the subsurface of southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 587-590

  Frank, Tracy D ^a   Gui, Zi ^a   ANDRILL SMS Science Team, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; BRINE FORMATION; GLACIAL ADVANCES; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; HYPERSALINE; ICE SHEET; INTERSTITIAL FLUIDS; MARINE BASINS; MARINE FACIES; MIRABILITE; NEO GENES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REPEATED CYCLE; ROSS SEA; SEA FLOOR; SEA ICE FORMATIONS; SUBGLACIAL SEDIMENT;

CRYOGENICS; FREEZING; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SODIUM;

BRINES;

BRINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYOGENIC FLUID; GLACIER RETREAT; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; ICE SHEET; POREWATER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77956016983     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30849.1     Document Type: Article

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