A hot-water ice-coring drill
A new method of ice-core drilling uses an annulus of hot-water jets to melt out a cylindrical ice core. This lightweight device used in combination with a fast hot-water drill can quickly obtain ice cores from any depth. © 2000 International Glaciological Society. MS received 4 May 1999 and accepte...
| Published in: | Journal of Glaciology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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International Glaciological Society
2000
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3189/172756500781832873 |
| Summary: | A new method of ice-core drilling uses an annulus of hot-water jets to melt out a cylindrical ice core. This lightweight device used in combination with a fast hot-water drill can quickly obtain ice cores from any depth. © 2000 International Glaciological Society. MS received 4 May 1999 and accepted in revised form 28 October 1999. Publication date: 2000-03-01. We thank our fine-mechanics B. Purchase and S. Cisnera for helpful suggestions and able machining. This work was supported by grant OPP-9319018 from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Published - Engelhardt2000p341_Journ_Glaciol.pdf |
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