 The Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) was a decade long project to drill ice cores in Greenland that involved scientists and funding agencies from Denmark, Switzerland and the United States. Besides NSF, funding was provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. Ice Core sample taken from drill. ...
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The preliminary GISP field work started in 1971 at Dye 3 (65N, 43W), where a 372 m deep, 10.2 cm diameter core was recovered. After this, annual field expeditions were carried out to drill intermediate depth cores at various locations on the ice sheet. The first was a 398 m core at Milcent and another was a 405 m core at the Crete station in 1974. After working out various logistical and engineering problems related to the development of a more sophisticated drilling rig, drilling to bedrock at Dye 3 began in the summer of 1979 using a new Danish electro-mechanical ice drill. In the first year, an 18 cm diameter hole was drilled and cased to a depth of 80 m. Coring continued for two more seasons and on August 10, 1981 bedrock was reached at a depth of 2037 m. The Dye 3 site was a compromise: glaciologically, a higher site on the ice divide with smooth bedrock would have been better; logistically, such a site would have been too remote. Field work is a general descriptive term for the collection of raw data in the natural and social sciences, such as archaeology, biology, ecology, environmental science, geology,geography geophysics, paleontology, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km² (19,305 mile²). The only current ice sheets are Antarctic and Greenland; during the last ice age at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of Canada...
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Bedrock is the native consolidated rock underlying the Earths surface. ...
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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Lateral moraine on a glacier joining the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. ...
GISP2 There was a follow up US GISP2 project, which drilled at a glaciologically better location on the summit. This hit bedrock (and drilled another 1.55 m into bedrock) on July 1, 1993 after five years of drilling, while European scientists produced a parallel core in the GRIP project. GISP2 produced an ice core 3053.44 meters in depth, the deepest ice core recovered in the world at the time [1]. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
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View of the GRIP site The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a multinational European research project, organised through the European Science Foundation. ...
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Ice Core sample taken from drill. ...
View of the GRIP site The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a multinational European research project, organised through the European Science Foundation. ...
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