We drilled an ice core to the bedrock (651 metres deep) at Skytrain Ice Rise — an ice dome sitting between the ... the same period in other parts of Antarctica, consistent with what would ...

Drilling has begun in Australia's quest for the oldest, continuous ice core record of Earth's climate, dating back more than ...

Last week, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) began the pilot drill for the Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), a ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic ... campaign was conducted at the remote ‘Little Dome C’ site by an international team of researchers.

The European team spent four years drilling at the remote Little Dome C site, located on the Antarctic plateau in the eastern part of the continent at an altitude of nearly 3,200 meters. According to ...

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ice core scientist from British Antarctic Survey, the UK partner in Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, who is part of the team at Dome C explains: “In the early 2000s we drilled an ice core from ...

where the Antarctic ice sheet meets bedrock. The drilling was completed earlier this month at a location called Little Dome C near the Concordia Research Station in southeastern Antarctica.

Australian scientists have started drilling in Antarctica for million-year-old ice as they try to shed light on the Earth's ...

Dating of the underlying rocks will be undertaken to unravel when this region of Antarctica was ice-free for the last time. The Little Dome C camp was deployed and sustained thanks to the highly ...

SEE ALSO: If a scary asteroid will actually strike Earth, here's how you'll know An international group of researchers excavated the ice at Little Dome C Field Camp in Antarctica, located 10,607 ...

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ... as Little Dome C, located near Concordia Research Station. They removed the ice core in pieces ...