The Lake El’gygytgyn Scientific Drilling Project – Conquering Arctic Challenges through Continental Drilling

• Published in: Scientific Drilling
• Main Authors: Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., Minyuk, P., Koeberl, C., Andreev, A., Cook, T., Fedorov, G., Gebhardt, C., Haltia-Hovi, E., Kukkonen, M., Nowaczyk, N., Schwamborn, G., Wennrich, V., the El´gygytgyn Scientific Party
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: 550 - Earth sciences; Arctic; Western Lake; Ice; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_243403

Between October 2008 and May 2009, the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) co-sponsored a campaign at Lake El´gygytgyn, located in a 3.6-Ma-old meteorite impact crater in northeastern Siberia. Drilling targets included three holes in the center of the 170-m-deep lake, utiliz...