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Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic

Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances, April 2018
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Title
Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic
Published in
Science Advances, April 2018
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aar4353
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Anja Rutishauser, Donald D. Blankenship, Martin Sharp, Mark L. Skidmore, Jamin S. Greenbaum, Cyril Grima, Dustin M. Schroeder, Julian A. Dowdeswell, Duncan A. Young

Abstract

Subglacial lakes are unique environments that, despite the extreme dark and cold conditions, have been shown to host microbial life. Many subglacial lakes have been discovered beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, but no spatially isolated water body has been documented as hypersaline. We use radio-echo sounding measurements to identify two subglacial lakes situated in bedrock troughs near the ice divide of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. Modeled basal ice temperatures in the lake area are no higher than -10.5°C, suggesting that these lakes consist of hypersaline water. This implication of hypersalinity is in agreement with the surrounding geology, which indicates that the subglacial lakes are situated within an evaporite-rich sediment unit containing a bedded salt sequence, which likely act as the solute source for the brine. Our results reveal the first evidence for subglacial lakes in the Canadian Arctic and the first hypersaline subglacial lakes reported to date. We conclude that these previously unknown hypersaline subglacial lakes may represent significant and largely isolated microbial habitats, and are compelling analogs for potential ice-covered brine lakes and lenses on planetary bodies across the solar system.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 112 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 27%
Researcher 16 14%
Student > Master 14 13%
Student > Bachelor 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 15 13%
Unknown 22 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 61 54%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 5%
Environmental Science 5 4%
Engineering 5 4%
Physics and Astronomy 4 4%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 25 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 396. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 June 2022.
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#76,326
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#820
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