Fifty Years of Soviet and Russian Drilling Activity in Polar and Non-Polar Ice: A Chronological History

Soviet and Russian drilling activity in ice began in 1955 while conducting temperature surveys on a glacier in Franz-Josef Land in the Arctic and continued to 1960 on the glaciers of the polar Ural and the northern Tien Shen mountain ranges. In 1956 the first Complex Antarctic Expedition (CAE) was f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ueda, Herbert T., Talalay, Pavel G.
Other Authors: ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2007
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
Machinery and Tools
*RUSSIA
*DRILLING
*GLACIERS
*SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
USSR
POLAR REGIONS
DRILLS
ARCTIC REGIONS
ANTARCTIC REGIONS
BOREHOLES
HISTORY
*ICE DRILLING
*RUSSIAN POLAR RESEARCH
*SOVIET POLAR RESEARCH
THERMAL DRILLS
Arctic
Antarctic
Franz Josef Land
Severnaya Zemlya
Lake Vostok
Vostok Station
Mirny Station
Rae
Mirny
Antarc*
glacier
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA472548
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA472548

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