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Using Borehole Logging And Electron Backscatter Diffraction To Orient An Ice Core From Upper Fremont Glacier, Wyoming, Usa, R. W. Obbard, T. Cassano, K. Aho, G. Troderman, I. Baker Sep 2011

Using Borehole Logging And Electron Backscatter Diffraction To Orient An Ice Core From Upper Fremont Glacier, Wyoming, Usa, R. W. Obbard, T. Cassano, K. Aho, G. Troderman, I. Baker

Dartmouth Scholarship

While glacier fabric reflects the accumulated strain, detailed azimuthal information is required to link the microstructure to the flow, and this is not easily gathered at depth. Borehole logging provides a way to obtain a log of azimuthal orientation of tilted stratigraphic features that can be used to orient the core with respect to glacier flow. We demonstrate this using acoustic borehole logs and the ice core from a 162 m borehole in Upper Fremont Glacier, Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA. We measured the dip of tilted dust and bubble layers in the actual ice core, identified them on the …


Recent Increase In Black Carbon Concentrations From A Mt. Everest Ice Core Spanning 1860–2000 Ad, S. D. Kaspari, M. Schwikowski, M. Gysel, M. G. Flanner, Kang Shichang, S. Hou, Paul A. Mayewski Feb 2011

Recent Increase In Black Carbon Concentrations From A Mt. Everest Ice Core Spanning 1860–2000 Ad, S. D. Kaspari, M. Schwikowski, M. Gysel, M. G. Flanner, Kang Shichang, S. Hou, Paul A. Mayewski

Climate Change Institute Faculty Scholarship

A Mt. Everest ice core spanning 1860–2000 AD and analyzed at high resolution for black carbon (BC) using a Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2) demonstrates strong seasonality, with peak concentrations during the winter-spring, and low concentrations during the summer monsoon season. BC concentrations from 1975–2000 relative to 1860–1975 have increased approximately threefold, indicating that BC from anthropogenic sources is being transported to high elevation regions of the Himalaya. The timing of the increase in BC is consistent with BC emission inventory data from South Asia and the Middle East, however since 1990 the ice core BC record does not indicate …


Assessment Of Black Carbon In Snow And Ice From The Tibetan Plateau And Pacific Northwest, Matthew Glen Jenkins Jan 2011

Assessment Of Black Carbon In Snow And Ice From The Tibetan Plateau And Pacific Northwest, Matthew Glen Jenkins

All Master's Theses

An ice core from Mt. Geladandong, Tibetan Plateau, spanning 1853-1983, and snow samples collected over two winters from the Cascade Mountains were analyzed for concentrations of black carbon (BC) using a Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2). From the ice core, the high-resolution BC record displayed substantial variability, a 2-fold increase in peak concentrations from 1853-1930 to 1930-1983, and a 1.6-fold increase in average concentrations from 1853-1975 to 1975-1983. Concentrations were also higher than at two areas closer to BC sources and analyzed by the same method. In the Pacific Northwest, BC concentrations varied seasonally and annually, with the highest concentrations …