Agile Sub-Ice Geological (ASIG) Drill development and Pirrit Hills field project

Agile Sub-Ice Geological (ASIG) Drill development and Pirrit Hills field project

A new drilling system was developed by the US Ice Drilling Program (IDP) to rapidly drill through overlying ice to collect subglacial rock cores. The Agile Sub-Ice Geological (ASIG) Drill system is capable of drilling up to 700 m of ice in a continuous manner. Intermittent ice core samples can be ta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tanner Kuhl, Chris Gibson, Jay Johnson, Grant Boeckmann, Elliot Moravec, Kristina Slawny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-04-01
Series:Annals of Glaciology
Subjects:
Ice and climate
ice coring
ice engineering
rock coring
sub-glacial sampling
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305520000592/type/journal_article

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