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Abstract

The Transantarctic Mountains of East Antarctica provide a new milieu for retrieval of ice-core records. We report here on the initial findings from the first of these records, the Dominion Range ice-core record. Sites such as the Dominion Range are valuable for the recovery of records detailing climate change, volcanic activity, and changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere. The unique geographic location of this site and a relatively low accumulation rate combine to provide a relatively long record of change for this potentially sensitive climatic region. As such, information concerning the site and general core characteristics are presented, including ice surface, ice thickness, bore-hole temperature, mean annual net accumulation, crystal size, crystal fabric, oxygen-isotope composition, and examples of ice chemistry and isotopic composition of trapped gases.

Department

Earth Systems Research Center

Publication Date

1-20-2017

Journal Title

Journal of Glaciology

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3189/S0022143000005499

Document Type

Article

Rights

© International Glaciological Society 1990.

Comments

This is an article published by Cambridge University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.3189/S0022143000005499

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