Document Type
Article
Publication Title
EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
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Publication Date
3-8-1994
First Page
113
Last Page
128
Issue Number
10
Volume Number
75
Abstract/ Summary
On July 1, 1993, after 5 years of drilling, the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2) penetrated several meters of silty ice and reached bedrock at a depth of 3053.4 m. It then penetrated 1.5 m into the bedrock, producing the deepest ice core ever recovered (Figure 1).
In July 1992, a nearby European ice coring effort, the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP), reached an ice depth of 3028.8 m, providing more than 250,000 years of record. Comparisons between these ice core records have already demonstrated the remarkable reproducibility of the upper ∼90% of the records unparalleled view of climatic and environmental change.
Repository Citation
Mayewski, Paul Andrew; Twickler, M. S.; Dibb, J. E.; Wumkes, M.; Klinck, J.; Putscher, J. S.; Taylor, K. C.; Meese, D. A.; Waddington, E. D.; Alley, R. B.; Grootes, P. M.; Ram, M.; Wahlen, M.; and Wilson, A. T., "Record Drilling Depth Struck in Greenland" (1994). Earth Science Faculty Scholarship. 251.
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Citation/Publisher Attribution
Mayewski, P. A., et al. (1994), Record drilling depth struck in Greenland, Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union, 75(10), 113-128, doi:10.1029/94EO00814.
DOI
10.1029/94EO00814
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