The glaciological expedition to Mount Ichinsky, Kamchatka, Russia

• Main Authors: Matoba, Sumito, Ushakov, Sergey V., Shimbori, Kunio, Sasaki, Hirotaka, Yamasaki, Tetsuhide, Ovshannikov, Alexander A., Manevich, Alexander G., Zhideleeva, Tatyana M., Kutuzov, Stanislav, Muravyev, Yaroslav D., Shiraiwa, Takayuki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Japanese Society of Snow and Ice
• Subjects: Kamchatka; Glacier; Ice core; Drilling; Ichinsky; 452; glacier; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/20566

During summer 2006, we carried out ice-core drilling to bedrock on a glacier at the summit of Mount Ichinsky, Kamchatka, Russia, and recovered a 115-m-long ice core. We also prepared samples, performed ice-core analyses in-situ, and measured the borehole temperature. The temperature of the borehole was -13℃ at 10m depth, and the pore close-off depth was 25m. The melt-feature percentage, or the thickness of frozen ice layers in a 1-m-long section of ice core, varied from 10% to 100%. These ice layers were formed by both rainfall, surface melting, and frost on the glacier surface, which we observed during our expedition. We hypothesize that the fluctuations in the proportion of ice layers show climatic variation in Kamchatka.