Lake Definition and 102 Threads

Anybody else heard of this facility? Apparently some really odd stuff is happening at Lake Vostok. http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/vostok.html http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and_Information/Press_Releases/1998/19980317.html...

I have been rather unfortunate to attend a school with a physics department that uses Sears and Zemansky's University Physics textbook. I have been working unsuccessfully on the following problem (Chapter 15, #103 for those who have the book) for 2 days... Show that the thickness of the ice...