Deuterium and 18O variations in lakes of the Schirmacher Oasis (East Antarctica)

As a snow and icefreee rock area the Schirmacher Oasis (Queen Maud Land) is situated on the coast of the Antarctic continent, between inland and shelf ice. In the area of the oasis different exogenic conditions have produced multiform types of lake basins. In the present report first results about isotope hydrological relations in the lakes of the Schirmacher Oasis are discussed. The lakes can be classified by isotope hydrological parameters into different groups. The classification depends on in- and outflow, evaporation processes, nature of inflow and location. (author)