Dome B
Coordinates: 77 ° 5 ′ S , 94 ° 55 ′ E
Dome B is an ice dome in East Antarctica that rises to an altitude of 3600 m. Due to its rather elongated shape, it is also referred to as Ridge B in the specialist glaciological literature .
A total of 780 m long ice core was won from Dome B by the 33rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition in the south summer of 1987/88. Inclusions of air bubbles and volcanic dust contained therein provide information about the development of the earth's atmosphere over the last 30,000 years.
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Legrand, M. & Majewski, P. (1997): Glaciochemistry of polar ice cores: A review . Reviews of Geophysics 35 (3): 219-243
- ^ Map of subglacial lakes labeled Ridge B , accessed March 20, 2018
- ↑ Leysinger Vieli, GJ-MC, Siegert, MJ and Payne, AJ (2004): Reconstructing ice-sheet accumulation rates at ridge B, East Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology, 39, pp. 326-330
- ↑ J. Jouzel (2013): A brief history of ice core science over the last 50 yr . Clim. Past 9, 2525-2547 .
- ^ Isotope Techniques in the Study of Past and Current Environmental Changes in the Hydrosphere and the Atmosphere. Proceedings of a Symposium, Vienna 1993, p. 599
