Background to the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Florindo, F., Harwood, D. M, Talarico, F., Levy, Richard
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2008
• Subjects: Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Austral; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; McMurdo Sound; Transantarctic Mountains; Barrett; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Harwood; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; ice covered areas
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/andrillrespub/15; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/andrillrespub/article/1014/viewcontent/Florindo_TA_2008_Background_to_the_ANDRILL.pdf

During the austral spring of 2007, the Southern McMurdo (SMS) Project recovered a 1138.54 meter long drill core (AND-2A) from a 8.5 m thick floating seaice platform (~8.5 meters thick) over approximately 380 meters of water (77°45.488S; 165°16.613E) (Fig. 1). This demonstrated the ANDRILL Program’s...