Library

Portal to drilling documents and publications of interest to the ice drilling community. There are currently 516 documents in the Library. See Publications for a list of peer reviewed publications from projects that received IDPO-IDDO field support.

Subglacial Till/Bedrock Drilling
Citation Year
Yang C, Jiang J, Cao P, Wang J, Fan X, Shang Y, Talalay P . 2017 . Assessing the efficiency of carbide drill bits and factors influencing their application to debris-rich subglacial ice, Polar Science, doi: 10.1016/j.polar.2017.05.001 2017
Wang Z, Collins J and Huang SL . 1994 . Low power diamond rock coring parameters, Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue No. 49, Pages 99-112 1994
Wang J, Cao P, Liu C, Talalay PG . 2015 . Comparison and analysis of subglacial bedrock core drilling technology in Polar Regions, Polar Science, Volume 9, Pages 208-220, doi: 10.1016/j.polar.2015.03.003 2015
Ueda HT and Garfield DE . 1969 . Core Drilling Through the Antarctic Ice Sheet, CRREL Technical Report 231 1969
Ueda HT and Garfield DE . 1968 . Drilling Through the Greenland Ice Sheet, CRREL Special Report 126 1968
U.S. Science Community and IDPO . 2014 . Science Requirements: Agile Sub-Ice Geological Drill, 2014
Tulaczyk S, Elliot D, Vogel SW, Powell RD, Priscu JC and Clow GD . 2002 . FASTDRILL: Interdisciplinary Polar Research Based on Fast Ice-Sheet Drilling, Report of an NSF-Sponsored Workshop Held at University of California, Santa Cruz, October 23-25, 2002 2002
Truffer M, Motyka RJ, Harrison WD, Echelmeyer KA, Fisk B and Tulaczyk S . 1999 . Subglacial drilling at Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A.: drilling method and sample descriptions, Journal of Glaciology, Volume 45, Number 151, Pages 495-505 1999
Talalay PG . 2016 . Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology, Springer Geophysics, doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-0560-2_1 2016
Talalay PG . 2013 . Subglacial till and bedrock drilling, Cold Regions Science and Technology, Volume 86, Pages 142-166, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2012.08.009 2013
Talalay PG . 2012 . Review of Subglacial Till and Bedrock Drilling, Technical Report PRC 12-02, Polar Research Center, Jilin University, China 2012
Subglacial Access Working Group . 2016 . Access Drilling Priorities in Ice Shelves and Ice Streams - Thwaites Glacier Region - White Paper, 2016
Subglacial Access Working Group . 2016 . Access Drilling Priorities in the Ross Sea Sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - White Paper, 2016
Subglacial Access Working Group . 2016 . Access Drilling Priorities in the Antarctic Continental Interior - White Paper, 2016
Subglacial Access Working Group . 2016 . 2016 Subglacial Access Drilling: IDPO Science Planning Workshop - Final Agenda and Participant List, 2016
Popp TJ, Hansen SB, Sheldon SG, Schwander J, Johnson JA . 2014 . Drilling into debris-rich basal ice at the bottom of the NEEM (Greenland) borehole, Annals of Glaciology, Volume 55, Number 68, Pages 199-206, doi: 10.3189/2014AoG68A029 2014
Litvinenko VS . 1988 . Investigation of Ice and Rock Drilling by Melting, Ice Core Drilling. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology (eds C. Rado and D. Beaudoing), Pages 160-163 1988
Koci B . 1988 . A Deep Hot Water Drill System with Potential for Bottom Sampling, Ice Core Drilling. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology (eds C. Rado and D. Beaudoing), Pages 137-139 1988
IDDO . 2015 . Agile Sub-Ice Geological Drill System Design Review, Pages 1-72 2015
Ice Drilling Design and Operations . 2012 . Rapid Access Ice Drill: A Drilling System Equipped for Rapid Transit over Glacial Ice, Equipped for On-the-Fly Ice Coring and Subglacial Rock Coring, and Suitable for Regional Geological Mapping and Glaciology , University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 2012
Humphrey N, Kamb B, Fahnestock M and Engelhardt H . 1993 . Characteristics of the Bed of the Lower Columbia Glacier, Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 98, Number B1, Pages 837-846, doi: 10.1029/92JB01869 1993
Hodgson DA, Bentley MJ, Smith JA, Klepacki J, Makinson K, Smith AM, Saw K, Scherer R, Powell R, Tulaczyk S, Rose M, Pearce D, Mowlem M, Keen P, Siegert MJ . 2016 . Technologies for retrieving sediment cores in Antarctic subglacial settings, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Volume 374, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0056 2016
Harrison WD, Truffer M, Echelmeyer KA, Pomraning DA, Abnett KA and Ruhkick RH . 2004 . Probing the till beneath Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska, USA, Journal of Glaciology, Volume 50, Number 171, Pages 608-614, doi: 10.3189/172756504781829693 2004
Engelhardt H, Humphrey N, Kamb B and Fahnestock M . 1990 . Physical Conditions at the Base of a Fast Moving Antarctic Ice Stream, Science, Volume 248, Number 4951, Pages 57-59, doi: 10.1126/science.248.4951.57 1990
Clow GD and Koci B. . 2002 . A fast mechanical-access drill for polar glaciology, paleoclimatology, geology, tectonics and biology, Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue No. 56, Pages 5-37 2002
Cao P, Yang C, Zheng Z, Wang R, Zhang N, Liu Z, Hu Z, Talalay P . 2014 . Low-load diamond drill bits for subglacial bedrock sampling, Annals of Glaciology, Volume 55, Number 68, Pages 124-130, doi: 10.3189/2014AoG68A001 2014
Cao P, Yang C, Chen Y, Chen B, Talalay P . 2015 . Experimental study of the drilling process in debris-rich ice, Cold Regions Science and Technology , Volume 120, Pages 138-144, doi: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2015.10.001 2015
Bentley CR, Koci BR, AugustinLJ-M, Bolsey RJ, Green JA, Kyne JD, Lebar DA, Mason WP, Shturmakov AJ, Engelhardt HF, Harrison WD, Hecht MH and Zagorodnov V . 2009 . Chapter 4: Ice Drilling and Coring, Drilling in Extreme Environments: Penetration and Sampling on Earth and other Planets (eds Y. Bar-Cohen and K. Zacny), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, doi: 10.1002/9783527626625.ch4 2009
Bentley CR and Koci BR . 2007 . Drilling to the beds of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: a review, Annals of Glaciology, Volume 47, Number 1, Pages 1-9, doi: 10.3189/172756407786857695 2007
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