Drilling, processing and first results for Mount Johns ice core in West Antarctica Ice Sheet

• Main Authors: Schwanck,Franciele, Simões,Jefferson Cardia, Handley,Michael, Mayewski,Paul Andrew, Bernardo,Ronaldo Torma, Aquino,Francisco Eliseu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia 2016
• Subjects: Trace elements; Ice core; West Antarctica ice sheet; ICP-SFMS; Austral; Patagonia; West Antarctica; Mount Johns; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2317-48892016000100029

ABSTRACT: An ice core, 92.26 m in length, was collected near the ice divide of the West Antarctica ice sheet during the 2008/2009 austral summer. This paper described the fieldwork at the Mount Johns site (79º55'S; 94º23'W) and presented the first results of the upper 45.00 m record coveri...