Ice core

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361Glaciology / Oates Land / Queen Maud Mountains / Gould Coast / Byrd Glacier / Ice sheet / Ice core / Antarctica / Glacier / Geography of Antarctica / Physical geography / Hillary Coast

high ice hummocks. Although the ice appears to be moving rapidly in this region, the crevassing does not indicate a preferential direction of movement. Bulk ice samples were collected by chipping at locations near statio

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 03:40:53
362Ice core / Incremental dating / Water ice / Climate history / Dye 3 / Antarctica / Ice age / Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station / Stratigraphy / Physical geography / Geochronology / Poles

preindustrial atmospheric CO 2 concentration. This value is low but within the limits estimated by other methods. Additional measurements on south polar ice cores should help to confirm this value and show if there were

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 05:01:12
363Incremental dating / Water ice / Petroleum / Oilfield terminology / Physical geography / Drilling rig / Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory / Core drill / Ross Ice Shelf / Geochronology / Geology / Ice core

transition zone will be less complex, too. At a firn temperature of —50°C, the portion of gases adsorbed at the firn grain surface is expected to be minimal. Therefore, it is believed that gases enclosed in ice sample

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364Water ice / Water well / Drilling / Geology / Core drill / Physical geography / Technology / Koci Cliffs / Geochronology / Ice core / Incremental dating

was spread over the drill stem filling most of the ledges and holes. The rock appears to be basaltic in composition and strongly faceted indicating subglacial transport over a considerable distance (Ridky personal commun

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365Poles / 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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366Geochronology / Ice core / Incremental dating / Climate history / Antarctica / Snow / Ice shelf / Antarctic ice sheet / Ross Ice Shelf / Physical geography / Glaciology / Water ice

sional deposition from supercooled fogs (Linkletter and Warburton, 1976), and (2) fresh snowfall in light wind conditions. These enhanced factors are greater than those seen in samples of snow and firn collected from sha

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367Extreme 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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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 15:42:55
368Sea 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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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 19:57:44
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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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 18:57:21
370West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice shelf / Ice sheet / Current sea level rise / Larsen Ice Shelf / Antarctic ice sheet / Antarctica / Ice core / Sea ice / Physical geography / Glaciology / Earth

THE WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET AND LONG TERM CLIMATE POLICY An Editorial Comment 1. Introduction Disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) has long served as a benchmark of dangerous climate change (Mercer, 196

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Language: English - Date: 2010-10-27 21:13:01
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