Drilling operations for the South Pole Ice Core (SPICEcore) project

Over the course of the 2014/15 and 2015/16 austral summer seasons, the South Pole Ice Core project recovered a 1751 m deep ice core at the South Pole. This core provided a high-resolution record of paleoclimate conditions in East Antarctica during the Holocene and late Pleistocene. The drilling and...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Annals of Glaciology
Main Authors: Jay A. Johnson, Tanner Kuhl, Grant Boeckmann, Chris Gibson, Joshua Jetson, Zachary Meulemans, Kristina Slawny, Joseph M. Souney
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
Subjects:
Ice core
ice drilling
ice engineering
Meteorology. Climatology
QC851-999
East Antarctica
Austral
South Pole
Annals of Glaciology
Antarc*
Antarctica
ice core
South pole
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2020.64
https://doaj.org/article/8e301096f2be46498466326b542f1eb7
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Summary:Over the course of the 2014/15 and 2015/16 austral summer seasons, the South Pole Ice Core project recovered a 1751 m deep ice core at the South Pole. This core provided a high-resolution record of paleoclimate conditions in East Antarctica during the Holocene and late Pleistocene. The drilling and core processing were completed using the new US Intermediate Depth Drill system, which was designed and built by the US Ice Drilling Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In this paper, we present and discuss the setup, operation, and performance of the drill system.

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