Antarctic subglacial drilling rig: Part I. General concept and drilling shelter structure

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Pavel Talalay, Youhong Sun, Xiaopeng Fan, Nan Zhang, Pinlu Cao, Rusheng Wang, Alexey Markov, Xingchen Li, Yang Yang, Mikhail Sysoev, Yongwen Liu, Yunchen Liu, Wei Wu, Da Gong
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Subjects: Ice engineering; Glacier geology; Ice coring; Subglacial exploration geophysics; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.37; https://doaj.org/article/756a09a560bf4d0ca1dff57dc19a2191

Drilling to the bedrock of ice sheets and glaciers offers unique opportunities for examining the processes occurring in the bed. Basal and subglacial materials contain important paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental records and provide a unique habitat for life; they offer significant information reg...