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- Title
The investigation and experience of using ESTISOL™ 240 and COASOL™ for ice-core drilling.
- Authors
SHELDON, Simon G.; STEFFENSEN, Jørgen P.; HANSEN, Steffen B.; POPP, Trevor J.; JOHNSEN, Sigfús J.
- Abstract
Continuous good-quality deep ice cores provide excellent scientific data with which to reconstruct a past climate record for >800 ka. At depths starting from ~100 m using an electromechanical drill, a drilling liquid is essential for successful recovery of the very high-quality ice cores demanded by modern scientific analysis techniques (e.g. continuous flow analysis). Finding a suitable drill fluid for use at deep ice-coring drill sites is not an easy task. Temperatures vary greatly not just from site to site, but also at a site where the average mean temperature from surface to bedrock can vary from -55°C to -2.75°C. In the past 60 years, many fluids have been used, with varying degrees of success, but for various reasons are either unavailable, are now considered unsafe and dangerous or are too environmentally damaging to be permitted. Here we report on our pre-season investigation into possible candidate drill fluids, with specific information concerning ESTISOL™ 240 and COASOL™, the rationale behind the redesign of our drill successfully used at NorthGRIP, Greenland, and EPICA DML, Antarctica, the knock-on effect of those changes, and our field experience in Greenland at Flade Isblink in 2006 and at NEEM in 2009-10.
- Subjects
ICE cores; ICE coring rigs; DRILLING fluids; GLACIOLOGY; HYDROCHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; EQUIPMENT &; supplies
- Publication
Annals of Glaciology, 2014, Vol 55, Issue 68, p219
- ISSN
0260-3055
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3189/2014AoG68A036