Biological and Oceanographic Observations under an Antarctic Ice Shelf

31 August 1962

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 137 (3531) , 679-681
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.137.3531.679

Abstract

Animal life has been shown to exist under the Ross Ice Shelf, from samples obtained with bottom-sampling equipment through naturally occurring cracks in the permanent shelf ice. An abundant fauna, comprising at least nine phyla, was found on a mud and rock bottom. This fauna differs somewhat from that found under nearby seas periodically covered with sea ice 2 to 3 meters thick.