Preface |
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1 Introduction to Ice Drilling Technology |
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1.1 Ice Drilling Targets and Aims |
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1.2 Structure of Ice Sheets and Glaciers |
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4 | (2) |
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1.3 Classification of Ice Drilling Methods |
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6 | (3) |
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7 | (2) |
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2 Yearly History of Ice Drilling from Ninetieth to the First Half of Twentieth Century |
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9 | (6) |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (12) |
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15 | (5) |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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3.1.4 Federal Snow Sampler |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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3.1.7 Large Diameter Snow Samplers |
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19 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (4) |
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3.2.1 Ski Pole Penetrometer |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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3.2.4 Digital Thermo-Resistograph |
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22 | (1) |
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3.2.5 Snow Micro-Penetrometer |
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22 | (1) |
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3.2.7 Cone Penetrometer Testing |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (3) |
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24 | (3) |
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4 Hand- and Power-Driven Portable Drills |
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27 | (7) |
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4.1.1 SFFEL Noncoring Auger |
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27 | (1) |
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4.1.2 SJPRE/CRREL Ice Thickness Kit |
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27 | (3) |
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4.1.3 Kovacs Ice Thickness Kit |
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30 | (1) |
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4.1.4 AARI Portable Sled-Mounted Drilling Rig |
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30 | (1) |
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4.1.5 Handheld Coal-Boring Augers |
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30 | (1) |
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4.1.6 Ice Augers for Winter Fishing |
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31 | (3) |
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4.2 Noncoring "Piston" Drills |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (11) |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (2) |
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39 | (1) |
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4.3.7 PICO Lightweight Auger |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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4.3.12 "Prairie Dog" Auger |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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4.4 Core Drills with Teeth and Annular Bits |
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45 | (5) |
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4.4.1 Taku Glacier Hand Drill |
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46 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Canadian Portable Ice Drill |
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46 | (1) |
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4.4.3 Tsykin's Hand Drill |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (1) |
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4.4.5 Ice Core Drill with Annular Bit PI-8 |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (1) |
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4.5.1 Livingston Island Mini Drill |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (2) |
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53 | (6) |
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5.1 Cable-Tool Drill Rigs |
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53 | (3) |
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5.1.1 IGAS Cable-Tool Rig |
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5.1.2 Cable-Tool of California Institute of Technology |
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54 | (1) |
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5.1.3 Star Iron Works Cable-Tool |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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5.3 Rotary-Percussion Drills |
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56 | (1) |
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56 | (3) |
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56 | (3) |
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6 Conventional Machine-Driven Rotary Drill Rigs |
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59 | (42) |
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59 | (5) |
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6.1.1 Expeditions Polaires Francaises in Greenland |
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59 | (3) |
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6.1.2 Baffin Island Expedition |
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62 | (1) |
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6.1.3 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition |
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63 | (1) |
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6.1.4 Mirny Station, Antarctica |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (4) |
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6.2.1 Mirny Station, Antarctica |
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64 | (1) |
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6.2.2 McMurdo Station, Antarctica |
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65 | (2) |
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6.2.3 Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole |
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67 | (1) |
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6.2.4 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Camp |
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68 | (1) |
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6.3 Commercial Drill Rigs for Ice Fishing |
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68 | (3) |
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6.4.3 Byrd Station, Antarctica |
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6.4.4 Little America V, Antarctica |
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75 | (1) |
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6.4.5 Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic |
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76 | (1) |
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6.4.6 Base Roi Baudouin, Antarctica |
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76 | (1) |
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6.5 Rotary Drilling with Fluid Circulation |
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77 | (2) |
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6.5.1 Taku Glacier, Alaska |
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6.5.2 Mer de Glace, French Alps |
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78 | (1) |
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6.5.3 South Leduc Glacier, British Columbia |
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78 | (1) |
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6.5.4 McMurdo Station, Antarctica |
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79 | (1) |
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6.6.1 International Antarctic Glaciological Project, East Antarctica |
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80 | (1) |
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6.6.2 Ross Ice Shelf Project |
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6.6.3 Base Druzhnaya, Antarctica |
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82 | (1) |
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6.6.4 Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska |
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83 | (1) |
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6.6.5 Isua Greenstone Belt, Southwestern Greenland |
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84 | (1) |
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6.6.6 Foremore Glacier, British Columbia, Western Canada |
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85 | (1) |
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6.6.7 Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) |
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86 | (2) |
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6.6.8 Agile Sub-ice Geological (ASIG) Drill |
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88 | (1) |
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6.7 Drilling in Rock Glaciers |
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6.7.1 Overview of Projects Using Conventional Drilling Equipment |
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95 | (2) |
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97 | (4) |
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7 Flexible Drill-Stem Drill Rigs |
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7.1 Rapid Shallow Drill Rigs |
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101 | (2) |
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7.2 Rapid-Access Drill Rigs |
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103 | (4) |
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7.2.1 Thermomechanical Drill |
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103 | (1) |
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7.2.2 Coiled-Tubing Drill Rigs |
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103 | (1) |
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7.2.4 SUBGLACIOR Drilling Probe |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (2) |
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8 Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Auger Drills |
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109 | (2) |
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8.2 University of Iceland (UI) Drill |
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111 | (5) |
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8.3 University of Bern (UB) Drills |
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116 | (6) |
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116 | (2) |
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8.3.2 Further Improved UB Drills |
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118 | (4) |
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122 | (2) |
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8.5 Institute of Low Temperature Science (ILTS) Drills |
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124 | (5) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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8.5.5 Portable ILTS-130 and -100 Drills |
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127 | (1) |
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8.5.6 JLTS-130E(F) and ILTS-150 Drills |
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128 | (1) |
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8.5.7 New Portable ILTS Drill |
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128 | (1) |
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8.6 University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Drill |
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129 | (3) |
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8.7 Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) Drills |
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132 | (2) |
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8.8 National Hydrology Research Institute (NHRI) Drill |
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134 | (3) |
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8.9 Polar Ice Coring Office (PICO) 4" Drill |
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137 | (4) |
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8.10 Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) Drills |
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141 | (3) |
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8.11 Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) Drill |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (3) |
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148 | (6) |
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8.13.1 Geo Tecs Prototype Shallow Drill |
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148 | (1) |
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8.13.2 Further Improvements |
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148 | (2) |
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8.13.3 Field Testing and Operations |
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150 | (4) |
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8.14 Hilda/Simon/Eclipse Drills |
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154 | (4) |
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8.14.1 Hilda/Simon Drills |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (2) |
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8.14.3 Field Testing and Coring |
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157 | (1) |
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8.14.4 Badger-Eclipse Drill |
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158 | (1) |
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8.15 Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) Drills |
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158 | (7) |
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8.16 British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Drills |
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165 | (2) |
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165 | (1) |
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8.16.2 Rapid-Access Isotope Drill |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (3) |
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8.18 Blue Ice Drill (BID) |
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170 | (3) |
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8.18.1 BID General Fescription |
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170 | (2) |
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8.18.2 Operation and Performance |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (6) |
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175 | (4) |
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9 Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Drills with Bottom-Hole Circulation |
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9.1 CRREL Electromechanical Drill |
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179 | (8) |
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179 | (4) |
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9.1.2 Camp Century, Greenland |
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183 | (1) |
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9.1.3 Byrd Station, Antarctica |
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184 | (3) |
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187 | (6) |
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187 | (1) |
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9.2.2 Dye 3, Greenland (GISP) |
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188 | (1) |
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9.2.3 Summit, Greenland (GRIP) |
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189 | (3) |
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9.2.4 Law Dome, Antarctica |
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192 | (1) |
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9.3 LGGE Electromechanical Drills |
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193 | (1) |
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9.4 PICO-5.2" Electromechanical Drill |
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194 | (8) |
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194 | (3) |
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9.4.2 Summit, Greenland (GISP2) |
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197 | (4) |
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9.4.3 Taylor Dome, Antarctica |
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201 | (1) |
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9.4.4 Siple Dome, Antarctica |
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201 | (1) |
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9.5 KEMS Electromechanical Drill |
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202 | (7) |
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202 | (1) |
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9.5.2 Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic |
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203 | (2) |
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9.5.3 Vostok Station, Antarctica |
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205 | (4) |
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9.6 JARE Electromechanical Drill |
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209 | (6) |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (1) |
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9.6.3 First Deep Ice Coring Project at Dome F, Antarctica |
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211 | (3) |
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9.6.4 Second Deep Ice Coring Project at Dome F, Antarctica |
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214 | (1) |
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9.6.5 Kunlun Station (Dome A), Antarctica |
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215 | (1) |
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9.7 Hans Tausen (HT) Electromechanical Drill and Its Modifications |
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215 | (29) |
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215 | (3) |
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9.7.2 Hans Tausen Ice Cap, Greenland |
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218 | (1) |
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9.7.3 NorthGRIP, Greenland |
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218 | (4) |
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9.7.4 EPICA Dome C, Antarctica |
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222 | (4) |
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9.7.5 EPICA-DML, Kohnen Station, Antarctica |
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226 | (2) |
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9.7.6 Berkner Island, Antarctica |
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228 | (2) |
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9.7.7 Talos Dome, Antarctica (TALDICE) |
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230 | (1) |
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9.7.8 Flade Isblink Ice Cap, Greenland |
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230 | (1) |
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9.7.9 NEEM Deep Ice Core Drilling, Greenland |
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231 | (3) |
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9.7.10 James Ross Island, Antarctica |
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234 | (1) |
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9.7.11 Fletcher Promontory, Antarctica |
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235 | (1) |
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9.7.12 Roosevelt Island, Antarctica |
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236 | (1) |
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9.7.13 NEEM, Greenland (UCPH Intermediate-Depth Ice Core Drilling System) |
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237 | (1) |
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9.7.14 Aurora Basin North, Antarctica |
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238 | (2) |
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9.7.15 Renland Ice Cap, Greenland |
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240 | (1) |
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9.7.16 Summit, Greenland (IDDO Intermediate-Depth Drill) |
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241 | (2) |
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9.7.17 South Pole, Antarctica (SPICE) |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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9.9 DISC Electromechanical Drill |
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245 | (6) |
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245 | (1) |
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9.9.2 Field Testing at Summit, Greenland |
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246 | (1) |
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9.9.3 WAIS Divide, Antarctica |
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247 | (2) |
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9.9.4 Replicate Coring, WAIS Divide, Antarctica |
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249 | (2) |
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251 | (1) |
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252 | (7) |
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254 | (5) |
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10 Drilling Challenges and Perspectives for Future Development |
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259 | (22) |
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10.1 Low-Temperature Drilling Fluids |
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259 | (4) |
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10.1.1 Drilling Fluid Compositions |
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259 | (1) |
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10.1.2 ESTTSOL™ 240/COASOL™ Drilling Fluid |
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260 | (2) |
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10.1.3 ESTISOL™ 140 Drilling Fluid |
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262 | (1) |
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10.1.4 Low-Molecular Weight Dimethyl Siloxane Oils |
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262 | (1) |
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10.1.5 Low-Molecular Weight Esters |
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262 | (1) |
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10.1.6 Kerosene-Based Drilling Fluids Mixed with Fourth-Generation Foam-Expansion Agents |
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263 | (1) |
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10.2 Ice Drilling Under Complicated Conditions |
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263 | (10) |
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10.2.1 Permeable Snow-Firn |
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263 | (2) |
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265 | (1) |
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266 | (3) |
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10.2.4 Debris-Containing Ice |
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269 | (1) |
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270 | (1) |
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10.2.6 Elimination of Sticking Drills |
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271 | (2) |
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10.3 Advanced Drilling Systems |
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10.3.1 Rapid-Access Ice Drilling Systems for Subglacial Bedrock Drilling |
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273 | (3) |
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276 | (1) |
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10.3.3 Automated Drilling Systems |
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277 | (1) |
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Appendix A Records of Mechanical Drilling in Ice |
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Appendix B Abbreviations of Institutes, Organizations, and Projects |
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