Technologies for retrieving sediment cores in Antarctic subglacial settings

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Main Authors: Hodgson, Dominic A., Bentley, Michael J., Smith, James A., Klepacki, Julian, Makinson, Keith, Smith, Andrew M., Saw, Kevin, Scherer, Reed, Powell, Ross, Tulaczyk, Slawek, Rose, Mike, Pearce, David, Mowlem, Matt, Keen, Peter, Siegert, Martin J.
• Other Authors: UK Natural Environment Research Council Consortium
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; George VI Ice Shelf; Larsen Ice Shelf; Rutford; Rutford Ice Stream; The Antarctic; Whillans; Whillans Ice Stream; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0056; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2015.0056; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsta.2015.0056

Accumulations of sediment beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet contain a range of physical and chemical proxies with the potential to document changes in ice sheet history and to identify and characterize life in subglacial settings. Retrieving subglacial sediments and sediment cores presents several uni...