Equipment and methods of microbiological sampling from deep levels of ice in central Antarctica

• Main Authors: Bobin,N.E., Kudryashov,B.B., Pashkevitch,V.M., Abyzov,S.S., Mitskevitch,I.N.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: St. Petersburg Mining Institute/St. Petersburg Mining Institute/St. Petersburg Mining Institute/Institute of Microbiology Russian Academy of Science/Institute of Microbiology Russian Academy of Science 1994
• Subjects: Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=2222; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00002222/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=2222&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

We report on the equipment, methods and results of microbiological sampling from deep levels of ice in Central Antarctica. The equipment includes a special microbiological drill laboratory (MBU) thermodrill (TELGA 14M), unit for sterile sampring from the ice core (USL) and borehole sampling unit (PS...