Brief communication: RADIX (Rapid Access Drilling and Ice eXtraction) dust logger test in the EastGRIP hole

• Main Authors: Schwander, Jakob, Stocker, Thomas Franziskus, Walther, Remo, Marending, Samuel, Erhardt, Tobias, Zeppenfeld, Chantal, Jost, Jürg
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: East Greenland; East Greenland Ice-core Project; Greenland; Greenland ice core; Greenland Ice core Project; ice core
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-372; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-372/

The RADIX (Rapid Access Drilling and Ice eXtraction) optical dust logger is part of the exploratory drilling system developed at the University of Bern. It was previously untested because no RADIX borehole reached to the depth of the required bubble-free ice. In June 2023, we tested the logger with an adapter for the large EastGRIP (East Greenland Ice-core Project) deep borehole. An excellent dust record was obtained for the Bølling-Allerød-Younger Dryas-Early Holocene period. The light scattered by the dust in the ice around the borehole was slightly higher than the detection range of the logger, requiring a reduction in the sensitivity for future deployments.