Deep subsurface brines in the polar desert of McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, revealed by a regional AEM (Airborne ElectroMagnetic) survey

Slawek M Tulaczyk1, Jill Mikucki2, Esben Auken3, Denys Grombacher4, Hilary A Dugan5, Nikolaj Foged6, Neil Foley7, Ross A Virginia8, Peter T Doran9, Krista F Myers9 and Ricardo Garza Giron7, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, TN, United States, (3)University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, (4)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (5)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, (6)Gaborone, Botswana, (7)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (8)Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies Program, Hanover, NH, United States, (9)Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States