Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica ...
AbstractTo understand the long-term climate and glaciological evolution of the ice sheet in the region bordering the Weddell Sea, the British Antarctic Survey has undertaken a series of successful ice core projects drilling to bedrock on Berkner Island, James Ross Island and the Fletcher Promontory....
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.70617 2024-02-04T09:54:53+01:00 Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica ... Mulvaney, R Rix, J Polfrey, S Grieman, M Martìn, C Nehrbass-Ahles, C Rowell, I Tuckwell, R Wolff, E 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.70617 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/323163 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) open.access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Glaciological instruments and methods ice coring paleoclimate Article ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle article-journal 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.70617 2024-01-05T14:24:54Z AbstractTo understand the long-term climate and glaciological evolution of the ice sheet in the region bordering the Weddell Sea, the British Antarctic Survey has undertaken a series of successful ice core projects drilling to bedrock on Berkner Island, James Ross Island and the Fletcher Promontory. A new project, WACSWAIN, seeks to increase this knowledge by further drilling to bedrock on two further ice rises in this region. In a single-season project, an ice core was recovered to bedrock at 651 m on Skytrain Ice Rise using an ice core drill in a fluid-filled borehole. In a second season, a rapid access drill was used to recover ice chips to 323 m on Sherman Island in a dry borehole, though failing to reach the bedrock which was at an estimated depth of 428 m. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Berkner Island British Antarctic Survey ice core Ice Sheet James Ross Island Ross Island Sherman Island Weddell Sea DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Berkner Island ENVELOPE(-48.117,-48.117,-79.333,-79.333) Fletcher Promontory ENVELOPE(-80.000,-80.000,-78.416,-78.416) Ross Island Sherman Island ENVELOPE(-100.000,-100.000,-73.050,-73.050) Skytrain Ice Rise ENVELOPE(-78.333,-78.333,-79.583,-79.583) Weddell Weddell Sea |
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AbstractTo understand the long-term climate and glaciological evolution of the ice sheet in the region bordering the Weddell Sea, the British Antarctic Survey has undertaken a series of successful ice core projects drilling to bedrock on Berkner Island, James Ross Island and the Fletcher Promontory. A new project, WACSWAIN, seeks to increase this knowledge by further drilling to bedrock on two further ice rises in this region. In a single-season project, an ice core was recovered to bedrock at 651 m on Skytrain Ice Rise using an ice core drill in a fluid-filled borehole. In a second season, a rapid access drill was used to recover ice chips to 323 m on Sherman Island in a dry borehole, though failing to reach the bedrock which was at an estimated depth of 428 m. ... |
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Mulvaney, R Rix, J Polfrey, S Grieman, M Martìn, C Nehrbass-Ahles, C Rowell, I Tuckwell, R Wolff, E |
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Mulvaney, R Rix, J Polfrey, S Grieman, M Martìn, C Nehrbass-Ahles, C Rowell, I Tuckwell, R Wolff, E |
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Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica ... |
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Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica ... |
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Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica ... |
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Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica ... |
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Ice drilling on Skytrain Ice Rise and Sherman Island, Antarctica ... |
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ice drilling on skytrain ice rise and sherman island, antarctica ... |
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