RESEARCH ARTICLE The Geochemistry of Englacial Brine 10.1029/2018JG004411 From Taylor Glacier, Antarctica Key Points: W. Berry Lyons1,2 , Jill A. Mikucki3 , Laura A. German1,2, Kathleen A. Welch1,2,4 , • Englacial brine was extracted from 1,2 1,2 5 6,7 Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, using Susan A. Welch , Christopher B. Gardner , Slawek M. Tulaczyk , Erin C. Pettit , clean‐entry techniques Julia Kowalski8 , and Bernd Dachwald9 • This is the first direct sampling of recently discovered subglacial brines 1School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, 2Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The beneath Taylor Valley, Antarctica 3 • Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, Geochemistry suggests that brine is 4 5 of marine origin and has been USA, Now at Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, Earth & Planetary 6 subsequently altered by chemical Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, CNMS Department of Geosciences, University of weathering products Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AL, USA, 7Now at College of Earth Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, 8AICES and Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 9Faculty of Aerospace Technology, FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, Germany Correspondence to: W. B. Lyons, ‐
[email protected] Abstract Blood Falls is a hypersaline, iron rich discharge at the terminus of the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. In November 2014, brine in a conduit within the glacier was penetrated and sampled using clean‐entry techniques and a thermoelectric melting probe called the Citation: fi Lyons, W.