Borehole sonic log from the southern sector of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, December 2022 ...

• Main Authors: Hubbard, Bryn, Miles, Katie, RiPIce Project Team
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre 2024
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE"; "EARTH SCIENCE","CRYOSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER MOTION/ICE SHEET MOTION"; "EARTH SCIENCE","TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER MASS BALANCE/ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE"; "EARTH SCIENCE","TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE","GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS","GLACIER MOTION/ICE SHEET MOTION"; "EARTH SCIENCE","OCEANS","COASTAL PROCESSES","SEA LEVEL RISE"; Antarctica; Larsen C; ice borehole; sonic log; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/6cc129aa-5dae-4c3c-a471-4974c2bcb8bf; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01968

This is a sonic log of a borehole drilled by hot water to 120 m (Site 1) on Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. The borehole was drilled in December 2022 to investigate the internal properties of a suture zone (Site 1) and a meteoric ice band (Site 2) of an ice shelf, as part of the NERC-funded RiPIce (Rift Propagation for Ice sheet models) research project. NERC standard grant NE/T008016/1. ... : The dataset is a sonic log from a borehole drilled to 120 m (Site 1) on Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, in December 2022. It was acquired using a slim-hole triple sonic borehole probe manufactured by Robertson Geologging Ltd, which is comprised of one transmitter that radiates a high-frequency acoustic wave detected by three receivers on the probe. Boreholes were logged whilst the sonic probe was travelling up the borehole. ...