Subglacial Lake Facts


	Subglacial Lake Facts

amgumen

8-26-2007 10:14 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/136ba115-92d4-4958-95df-f391849a4827/FAC9CA86-203A-443D-8018-B8147E7E7643/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/facts_about_lakes.html" href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/facts_about_lakes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ldeo.columbia.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/facts_about_lakes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ldeo.columbia.edu/img/4DB33DE8-5BA7-4A4A-9FAD-CBEF57D959BA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/facts_about_lakes.html"><P><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">Subglacial lakes in Antarctica: 145 (and growing)
Subglacial lakes in Greenland: 0</FONT></p> <TABLE width="700" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0" border="1"><TBODY><TR><TH width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">Name</FONT></TH><TH width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">Location</FONT></FONT></TH><TH width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">Size [km<SUP>2</SUP>]</FONT></FONT></TH><TH width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">Depth [m]</FONT></FONT></TH><TH width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">Volume [km<SUP>3</SUP>]</FONT></FONT></TH></TR><TR><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">Lake Vostok</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">107.5ºE, 78.5ºS</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">14,000</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">&gt;900</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">~5,400</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">Lake Concordia</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">124.5ºE, 74.1ºS</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">~800</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">~200-300</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">~200</FONT></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">90ºE Lake</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">90.0ºE, 77.4ºS</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">2,000</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">~900</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">~1,800</FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">Sovetskaya Lake</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">78.1ºE, 88.5ºS</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">1,600</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">unknown</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">unknown</FONT></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">Lake Ellsworth</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">90.6ºW, 79.0ºS</FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">100?</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">unknown</FONT></FONT></TD><TD width="20%"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><FONT size="1">unknown</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FAC9CA86-203A-443D-8018-B8147E7E7643/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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