Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research

Special Issue No.56

ICE DRILLING TECHNOLOGY 2000

CONTENTS

Preface ...................................Nobuhiko Azuma and Yoshiyuki Fujii ........................................ i

I: Shallow and intermediate ice core drilling
A review of high-altitude drilling
Bruce Koci ........................................ 1

A fast mechanical-access drill for polar glaciology, paleoclimatology, geology, tectonics and biology
Gary D. Clow and Bruce Koci........................................ 5

FELICS, a new ice core drilling system for high-altitude glaciers
P. Ginot, F. Stampfli, D. Stampfli, M. Schwikowski, and H.W. Gaggeler ........................................ 38

Ice core drilling on Southern Patagonia Icefield -Development of a new portable drill and the field expedition in 1999-
Shiro Kohshima, Takayuki Shiraiwa, Maria Angelica Godoi, Keiji Kubota, Nozomu Takeuchi and Kunio Shinbori ........................................ 49

Ice core drilling on the southern slope of the Nepal Himalayas
Koji Fujita, Fumio Nakazawa, Nozomu Takeuchi, Masayoshi Nakawo, Birbal Rana, Nobuhiko Azuma and Yoshiyuki Fujii ........................................ 59

Performance of intermediate depth portable ice core drilling system on polar and temperate glaciers
V.S. Zagorodnov, L.G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson and J.J. Kelley ........................................ 67

A medium-depth ice core drill
Robert Mulvaney, Steven Bremner, Andrew Tait and Neil Audley........................................ 82

II: Deep ice core drilling
Deep ice coring at Vostok Station (East Antarctica) by electromechanical drill
B.B. Kudryashov, N.I. Vasiliev, R.N. Vostretsov, A.N. Dmitriev, V.M. Zubkov, A.V. Krasilev, P.G. Talalay, N.I. Barkov, V.Ya. Lipenkov and J.R. Petit ........................................ 91

Deep ice core drilling to 2503 m depth at Dome Fuji, Antarctica
Yoshiyuki Fujii, Nobuhiko Azuma, Yoichi Tanaka, Yoshiki Nakayama, Takao Kameda, Kunio Shinbori, Kazuo Katagiri, Shuji Fujita, Akiyoshi Takahashi, Kunio Kawada, HideakiMotoyama, Hideki Narita, Kokichi Kamiyama, Teruo Furukawa, Shuhei Takahashi, Hitoshi Shoji, Hiroyuki Enomoto, Takeshi Saitoh, Morihiro Miyahara, Renji Naruse, Takeo Hondoh, Takayuki Shiraiwa, Kotaro Yokoyama, Yutaka Ageta, Takashi Saito and Okitsugu Watanabe........................................ 103

Improvements to the JARE deep ice core drill
Akiyoshi Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Nobuhiko Azuma, Hideaki Motoyama, Kunio Shinbori, Yoichi Tanaka, Hideki Narita, Yoshiki Nakayama, Takao Kameda, Shuji Fujita, Teruo Furukawa, Morimasa Takata, Morihiro Miyahara and Okitsugu Watanabe........................................ 117

Some thoughts on deep core drilling systems design
Herbert T. Ueda........................................ 126

Some features of ice drilling technology by a drill on a hoisting cable
N.I. Vasiliev........................................ 136

Hydraulic resistance to movement of a drill suspended by a cable in a bore-hole in travels
N.I. Vasiliev and B.B. Kudryashov ........................................ 142

Hole fluids for deep ice core drilling
P.G. Talalay and N.S. Gundestrup........................................ 148

Hydrostatic pressure and fluid density profile in deep ice bore-holes
P.G. Talalay and N.S. Gundestrup ........................................ 171

Sticking deep ice core drills: Why, and how to recover
Niels S. Gundestrup, Sigfus J. Johnsen, Steffen B. Hansen, Hitoshi Shoji, Pavel Talalay and Frank Wilhelms ........................................ 181

Ice core drilling complications
V.S. Zagorodnov, L.G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson and J.J. Kelley ........................................ 196

Attenuation of drill cables
Niels Gundestrup and Sigfus J. Johnsen ........................................ 206

III: Hot water drilling
Wotan: a drill for ice cube
Bruce Koci........................................ 209

Hot water drilling on the Amery Ice Shelf - the AMISOR project -
Michael Craven, Alan Elcheikh, Russell Brand and Nic Jones ........................................ 217

IV: On going and future drilling projects
The EPICA deep drilling program
Laurent Augustin and Adriano Antonelli....................................... 226

Proposal for penetration and exploration of sub-glacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica
S.R. Verkulich, B.B. Kudryashov, N.I. Barkov, N.I. Vasiliev, R.N. Vostretsov, A.N. Dmitriev, V.M. Zubkov, A.V. Krasilev, P.G. Talalay, V.Ya. Lipenkov, L.M. Savatyugin and I.N. Kuz'mina ........................................ 245

A proposed sterile sampling system for Antarctic subglacial lakes
Erik W. Blake and Buford Price ........................................ 253

V: Bore hole logging, ice core processing and physical properties of ice
The EPICA borehole logger
Eric Lefebvre, Laurent Augustin and Marcel Maitre........................................ 264

Ice core processing at Dome Fuji Station, Antarctica
Shuji Fujita, Nobuhiko Azuma, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Takao Kameda, Kokichi Kamiyama, Hideaki Motoyama, Hideki Narita, Hitoshi Shoji and Okitsugu Watanabe........................................ 275

The effect of hydrostatic pressure on crack formation in ice single crystals
Atsushi Miyamoto, Hitoshi Shoji and Kinji Hyakutake ........................................ 287

Microscopic observations on microtomed surface of ice
Kinji Hyakutake, Atsushi Moribe, Atsushi Miyamoto, Kimiko Shimohara and Hitoshi Shoji ........................................ 295

VI: Drill camp operation and logistics
Design, transport, construction, and operation of the summer base Kohnen for ice-core drilling in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
C. Drucker, F. Wilhelms, H. Oerter, A. Frenzel, H. Gernandt and H. Miller ........................................ 302

Intermediate depth ice core drilling support systems: power generators and shelters
V.S. Zagorodnov, L.G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson, F. Huffman and J. J. Kelley ........................................ 313

Controller for portable intermediate depth ice core drilling system
V.S. Zagorodnov, F. Huffman, L.G. Thompson and E. Mosley-Thompson........................................ 321

Program of the Fifth International Workshop on Ice Drilling Tchnology 2000............................................... 326

Author index ............................................................................ 328