ON THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OF DEEP ICE-CORE DRILLING AT VOSTOK STATION

This article describes a history of revealing the Antarctic sub-glacialLakeVostokas well as organization and further progress of the Soviet/Russian deep drilling project in the Central Antarctica, and, thus, the long-standing cooperation between USSR/Russia,Franceand theUSAunder this project. The wo...

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Published in:Ice and Snow
Main Author: V. M. Kotlyakov
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Russian
Published: Nauka 2015
Subjects:
антарктида
глубокая скважина
международное сотрудничество
подледниковое озеро
станция восток
Science
Q
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Vostok Station
Antarc*
Antarctica
ice core
Антарктида
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15356/2076-6734-2012-4-5-8
https://doaj.org/article/f86edc96c575416b81e01e110c7a4de2
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Summary:This article describes a history of revealing the Antarctic sub-glacialLakeVostokas well as organization and further progress of the Soviet/Russian deep drilling project in the Central Antarctica, and, thus, the long-standing cooperation between USSR/Russia,Franceand theUSAunder this project. The works lasted for several decades and were successfully completed with penetration into the lake that should be recognized as major achievement in the field of the Earth sciences in the early XXI century.

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