Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON)

DD Blankenship, A Moussessian, E Chapin… - Space science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface
(REASON) is a dual-frequency ice-penetrating radar (9 and 60 MHz) onboard the Europa …

A fourth inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes

A Wright, M Siegert - Antarctic Science, 2012 - cambridge.org
Antarctic subglacial lakes are studied for three main scientific reasons. First, they form an
important component of the basal hydrological system which is known to affect the dynamics …

Antarctic subglacial groundwater: a concept paper on its measurement and potential influence on ice flow

MJ Siegert, B Kulessa, M Bougamont, P Christoffersen… - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Is groundwater abundant in Antarctica and does it modulate ice flow? Answering this
question matters because ice streams flow by gliding over a wet substrate of till. Water fed to …

Subglacial Lake Whillans—Seismic observations of a shallow active reservoir beneath a West Antarctic ice stream

HJ Horgan, S Anandakrishnan, RW Jacobel… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Active subglacial lakes concentrate the distribution of water beneath ice sheets in both
space and time. Seismic and surface observations from Subglacial Lake Whillans (SLW) …

[PDF][PDF] The identification and physiographical setting of Antarctic subglacial lakes: An update based on recent discoveries

A Wright, MJ Siegert - Antarctic subglacial aquatic environments, 2011 - asu.cas.cz
We investigate the glaciological and topographic setting of known Antarctic subglacial lakes
following a previous assessment by Dowdeswell and Siegert (2002) based on the first …

Insights into geological evolution of Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica-clues for continental suturing and breakup since Rodinian time

D Arora, N Pant, M Pandey, A Chattopadhyay… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Svenner Islands-Brattstrand Bluffs-Larsemann Hills constitutes~ 70 km long coastal
outcrops of Princess Elizabeth Land (PEL), comprising complexly deformed metapelites and …

Dynamic flows create potentially habitable conditions in Antarctic subglacial lakes

LA Couston, M Siegert - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet lie over 400 subglacial lakes, which are considered
to be extreme, isolated, yet viable habitats for microbial life. The physical conditions within …

[图书][B] Antarctic lakes

J Laybourn-Parry, JL Wadham - 2014 - books.google.com
The Antarctic continent carries the greatest diversity of lake environments on the planet:
freshwater and saline lakes, tidal freshwater epishelf lakes, lakes on ice shelves and glacier …

Antarctic subglacial hydrology: current knowledge and future challenges

DW Ashmore, RG Bingham - Antarctic Science, 2014 - cambridge.org
Flood-carved landforms across the deglaciated terrain of Victoria Land, East Antarctica,
provide convincing geomorphological evidence for the existence of subglacial drainage …