Record Drilling Depth Struck in Greenland
On July 1, 1993, after 5 years of drilling, the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2) penetrated several meters of silty ice and reached bedrock at a depth of 3053.4 m. It then penetrated 1.5 m into the bedrock, producing the deepest ice core ever recovered (Figure 1). In July 1992, a nearby European...
Published in: | Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union |
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DigitalCommons@UMaine
1994
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ers_facpub/251 https://doi.org/10.1029/94EO00814 https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/ers_facpub/article/1256/viewcontent/Record_Drilling_Depth_Struck_in_Greenland.pdf |
Summary: | On July 1, 1993, after 5 years of drilling, the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2) penetrated several meters of silty ice and reached bedrock at a depth of 3053.4 m. It then penetrated 1.5 m into the bedrock, producing the deepest ice core ever recovered (Figure 1). In July 1992, a nearby European ice coring effort, the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP), reached an ice depth of 3028.8 m, providing more than 250,000 years of record. Comparisons between these ice core records have already demonstrated the remarkable reproducibility of the upper ∼90% of the records unparalleled view of climatic and environmental change. |
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