Setting Up A Deep Ice Core Drilling Facility and Preliminary Tests Terre Adelie - Antarctica

Title Setting Up A Deep Ice Core Drilling Facility and Preliminary Tests Terre Adelie - Antarctica
Publication Type
Conference Proceedings
Year
1988
Author(s) Daniel Donnou , Laurent Augustin, Alain Manouvrier, Jacky Perrin, Claude Girard, Guy Ricou
Journal/ Publication
Ice Core Drilling. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology (eds C. Rado and D. Beaudoing)
Pagination
66-69
Abstract

The goal of the summer 1987-88 field operations was to test the thermal drill equipment designed to work in a fluid filled hole and developed at the LGGE.

At the laboratory we had at our disposal a 8 m deep ice pit but was not deep enough to run the assembled drilling system. Each of the six components was checked separately. The 22.4 m long assembled unit was operating for the first time in the field.

This drilling equipment should allow recovery of very deep ice cores during only one summer period, assuming that people work 24 h a day.

File
Special Collections International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology Series, 3rd International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology
Categories Deep Drilling, Field Logistics/Camps, Thermal Drilling
Equipment Electrothermal (ET/ETED/ATED) Drills
Citation Daniel Donnou , Laurent Augustin, Alain Manouvrier, Jacky Perrin, Claude Girard, Guy Ricou ( 1988 ) Setting Up A Deep Ice Core Drilling Facility and Preliminary Tests Terre Adelie - Antarctica. Ice Core Drilling. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology (eds C. Rado and D. Beaudoing) , 66-69 .
Lead Author
Daniel Donnou