Glaciological and climatic significance of Hercules Dome, Antarctica – an optimal site for deep ice core drilling

• Main Authors: Robert W. Jacobel, Brian C. Welch, Eric J. Steig, David P. Schneider
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Pacific; Hercules; Hercules Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.366.8188; http://www.stolaf.edu/other/cegsic/publications/JGR_2005/jacobel_welch_steig_schneider_JGR.pdf

Antarctica (86°S, 105°W), which demonstrate its potential as a deep ice core site. Annual layering in dD ratios from a 72 m ice core collected by the US-ITASE 2002 traverse indicate accumulation rates of 0.16–0.20 m/yr ice equivalent over the last 300 years. Age control from stratigraphy seen in the...