Drilling location and schematic diagram of camp on the Ross Ice Shelf (IMAGE)

Binghamton University

Drilling location and schematic diagram of camp on the Ross Ice Shelf

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Drilling location and schematic diagram of camp on the Ross Ice Shelf. Several drilling pipes will be lowered to the seafloor through the ice shelf and used to core into the seafloor and sample the sediments that were deposited during past time of ice growth and melt.

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