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标题：What Lies Beneath? Interdisciplinary Outcomes of the ANDRILL Coulman High Project Site Surveys on the Ross Ice Shelf
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作者：Frank R. Rack ; Robert (Bob) Zook ; Richard H. Levy 等
期刊名称：Oceanography - Oceanography Society
印刷版ISSN：1042-8275
出版年度：2012
卷号：25
期号：3
页码：84-89
DOI：10.5670/oceanog.2012.79
出版社：Oceanography Society
摘要：Extensive field operations were conducted on the northwestern Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica from November 2010 through January 2011. A significant amount of equipment, supplies, and people safely traversed from McMurdo Station to establish a series of combined United States–New Zealand field camps at locations northeast of Ross Island. The ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) hot water drill system was used to melt multiple access holes through the ice shelf at each site to deploy a variety of sediment coring tools, cameras, and oceanographic instruments, as well as a remotely operated vehicle to characterize the ice shelf and sub-ice environment. These studies will contribute to future proposed geological drilling as part of the ANDRILL Coulman High Project.