Extreme points of Earth

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361Technology / Geochronology / Paleoclimatology / Extreme points of Earth / Ice core / Incremental dating / Ozone depletion / Proxy / Antarctica / Physical geography / Radar / Earth

Field operations began with an air drop of fuel and lumber on 19 November followed by an LC-130 put-in on 21 November of PICO personnel and equipment. All equipment was transferred to the first drill site on 22 November.

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362Automatic weather station / University of Wisconsin–Madison / Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station / Weather station / Dome C / Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations Project / Physical geography / Antarctica / Extreme points of Earth

During this year, the DADS reached its design criterion and became independent of dedicated field support. After receiving instruction, U.S. Geological Survey personnel unpacked the DADS recorder from its traveling cases

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363Sea ice / Arctic Ocean / Extreme points of Earth / Climatology / McMurdo Sound / Polar ice packs / Ross Ice Shelf / Antarctica / Polynya / Physical geography / Earth / Glaciology

tion there. Our results indicate that nitrifier activity may also be an important pathway of carbon dioxide fixation in the water under annual sea ice at certain times of the year. Carbon dioxide fixed by nitrifiers in t

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364Poles / Geochronology / Ice core / Incremental dating / Vostok Station / McMurdo Station / Ice / McMurdo Sound / Antarctica / Physical geography / Glaciology / Extreme points of Earth

Radar profiling of the ice tongue was supplemented by core drilling in the immediate vicinity of the glacial ice/sea ice contact. Onsite investigations of these cores, together with preliminary studies of crystal structu

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365Extreme points of Earth / Ice core / Incremental dating / Water ice / Byrd Polar Research Center / Antarctica / Core sample / Ross Ice Shelf / Pole of inaccessibility / Physical geography / Poles / Geochronology

with summer-surface values. In fact, the pockets probably represented summer surface material that was somehow incorporated into the sequence in bulk before any significant mixing occurred. Given the considerable surface

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366Sea ice / Water / Extreme points of Earth / Climate / Aquatic ecology / Ice core / Ice / Snow / Antarctica / Physical geography / Earth / Glaciology

the proximity of the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands and the South Orkney Islands, allowing a much more gradual transition from the deep pack-ice to the open ocean boundary. We wish to thank Brett Castill

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367Plate tectonics / Mount Erebus / Stratovolcanoes / Igneous rocks / Types of volcanic eruptions / Inner Crater / Lava lake / Volcanic gas / Main Crater / Geology / Volcanology / Extreme points of Earth

years. The lowering of the level may be equivalent to the amount of material ejected by the small strombolian eruptions. A deformation survey pattern set up in December 1980 was remeasured in December 1981; preliminary d

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368Shield volcanoes / Plate tectonics / Igneous rocks / Extreme points of Earth / Mount Berlin / Mount Waesche / Mount Andrus / Types of volcanic eruptions / Marie Byrd Land / Geology / Volcanology / Volcanism

enhanced image reveals the temperature of the surface and the brightness temperature of the crater area. The trace indicates that the brightness temperature is approximately 60°K above the background at the summit, whic

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369Extreme points of Earth / Ice core / Incremental dating / Water ice / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Transantarctic Mountains / Glacier / Antarctic ice sheet / Physical geography / Geochronology / Glaciology

There are two striking preliminary results. First, the nearsurface drops as the margin is approached (see figure). This very large effect, one apparently not observed before, is probably due to the ponding of cold air in

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370Arctic Ocean / Shipping routes / Sea ice / Geography of Canada / Climate change in the Arctic / International Arctic Science Committee / Oden / Pacific Marine Ecozone / Northern Canada / Physical geography / Extreme points of Earth / Arctic

An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on the Arctic Ocean A Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Exploratory Workshop University of British Columbia May 2-4, 2012 Vancouver, BC Canada

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