Brief communication: New radar constraints support presence of ice older than 1.5 Myr at Little Dome C

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: D. A. Lilien, D. Steinhage, D. Taylor, F. Parrenin, C. Ritz, R. Mulvaney, C. Martín, J.-B. Yan, C. O'Neill, M. Frezzotti, H. Miller, P. Gogineni, D. Dahl-Jensen, O. Eisen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2021
• Subjects: geo; envir; Austral; Concordia Station; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; ice core; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1881-2021; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/15/1881/2021/tc-15-1881-2021.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/de9672c9769e4fa88a734a5a7738b2ed

The area near Dome C, East Antarctica, is thought to be one of the most promising targets for recovering a continuous ice-core record spanning more than a million years. The European Beyond EPICA consortium has selected Little Dome C (LDC), an area ∼ 35 km southeast of Concordia Station, to attempt...