Amery Ice Shelf Borehole Measurements in 1968

• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; BOREHOLES; EARTH SCIENCE; PALEOCLIMATE; LAND RECORDS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Antarctic; Corry; Lambert Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/amery-ice-shelf-measurements-1968/699259; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AIS_1968_borehole; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

In 1968 the Australian Antarctic Division had a group of four men spend over a year on the Amery Ice Shelf. As part of their program of work, they drilled a number of boreholes on the shelf and took temperature readings at various depths down the hole. Stratigraphy notes and density measurements wer...