Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations

Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations

The Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) Project accessed Mercer Subglacial Lake using environmentally clean hot-water drilling to examine interactions among ice, water, sediment, rock, microbes and carbon reservoirs within the lake water column and underlying sediments. A ~0.4 m dia...

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Main Authors: John C. Priscu, Jonas Kalin, John Winans, Timothy Campbell, Matthew R. Siegfried, Mark Skidmore, John E. Dore, Amy Leventer, David M. Harwood, Dennis Duling, Robert Zook, Justin Burnett, Dar Gibson, Edward Krula, Anatoly Mironov, Jim McManis, Graham Roberts, Brad E. Rosenheim, Brent C. Christner, Kathy Kasic, Helen A. Fricker, W. Berry Lyons, Joel Barker, Mark Bowling, Billy Collins, Christina Davis, Al Gagnon, Christopher Gardner, Chloe Gustafson, Ok-Sun Kim, Wei Li, Alex Michaud, Molly O. Patterson, Martyn Tranter, Ryan Venturelli, Trista Vick-Majors, Cooper Elsworth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-09-01
Series:Annals of Glaciology
Subjects:
Antarctic glaciology
basal ice
biogeochemistry
glacial sedimentology
subglacial lakes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305521000100/type/journal_article

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