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Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes

Martin J. Siegert, J. Cynan Ellis-Evans, Martyn Tranter, Christoph Mayer, Jean-Robert Petit, Andrey Salamatin and John C. Priscu

Nature 414, 603-609(6 December 2001)

doi:10.1038/414603a

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Figure 1

The technique of airborne radio-echo sounding, and its application to identifying Lake Vostok and other subglacial lakes.

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Figure 2

The dimensions and topographic setting of Lake Vostok.

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Figure 3

Ice sheet cross-sections along the line of ice flow from the ice divide, across Lake Vostok, to the Vostok ice core.

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Figure 4

Water circulation patterns within Lake Vostok under fresh and saline conditions.

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Figure 5

A microscope image of a gas hydrate (or clathrate) structure found in Lake Vostok's accreted ice 3,566 m below the ice-sheet surface, which is 174 m above the lake surface.

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Figure 6

Images of bacteria frozen into Lake Vostok's accreted ice⁶.

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