Ross Ice Shelf Project drilling, October - December 1976
| Title | Ross Ice Shelf Project drilling, October - December 1976 |
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| Publication Type |
Journal Article
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| Year |
1977
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| Author(s) | John H Rand |
| Journal/ Publication |
Antarctic Journal of the United States
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| Volume |
12
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| Issue |
4
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| Pagination |
150-152
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| Abstract |
On 27 October the drilling crew and cargo arrived at site J-9 on the Ross Ice Shelf. The team consisted of John Rand, James Morse, Robert Bigl, and Gerard Sheldon from the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL); B. Lyle Hansen from the Ross Ice Shelf Project Management Office, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Henry Rufli from the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland; and Steven Quarry from the State University of New York-Buffalo. The Ross Ice Shelf Project (RISP) wire line core drilling system, designed and constructed at CRREL, incorporates various industrial components and rotary drilling tech- niques. It is described by Hansen (1976): |
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| Categories | Subglacial Access, Wire-line Core Drilling |
| Equipment | RISP Wire-line Core Drill |
| Citation | John H Rand ( 1977 ) Ross Ice Shelf Project drilling, October - December 1976. Antarctic Journal of the United States , 12 , 4 , 150-152 . |
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