Deep ice drilling, bedrock coring and dust logging with the Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) at Minna Bluff, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Goodge, John W, Severinghaus, Jeffrey P, Johnson, Jay, Tosi, Delia, Bay, Ryan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic glaciology; glacial tills; ice and climate; ice coring; subglacial sediments; Atmospheric Sciences; Geophysics; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Antarctic; Austral; McMurdo Station; Minna Bluff; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90g1645w

AbstractRapid Access Ice Drill is a new drilling technology capable of quickly accessing the glacial bed of Antarctic ice sheets, retrieving ice core and rock core samples, and providing boreholes for downhole logging of physical properties. Scientific goals include searching for old ice near the gl...