General Information
The Beacon Valley and Mullins Valley cores are not "typical" ice cores since the glacier contains some ice/sediment mixes below the surface. The cores were collected in blue ice areas by David Marchant and Michael Bender in 2009. For information on the cores available, please contact the NSF-ICF Science Management Office.
Publications
- Grimm RE, Stillman DE and MacGregor JA (2015) Dielectric signatures and evolution of glacier ice. Journal of Glaciology, 61(230), 1159-1170. https://doi.org/10.3189/2015JoG15J113
- Kowalewski DE, Marchant DR, Swanger KM, Head JW (2011) Modeling vapor diffusion within cold and dry supraglacial tills of Antarctica: Implications for the preservation of ancient ice. Geomorphology, 126, 159-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.11.001
- Mackay SL and Marchant DR (2016) Dating buried glacier ice using cosmogenic 3He in surface clasts: Theory and application to Mullins Glacier, Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, 140, 75-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.013
- Mackay SL, Marchant DR, Lamp JL, Head JW (2014) Cold-based debris-covered glaciers: Evaluating their potential as climate archives through studies of ground-penetrating radar and surface morphology. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, 119, 2505–2540. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003178
- Swanger KM (2017) Buried ice in Kennar Valley: a late Pleistocene remnant of Taylor Glacier. Antarctic Science, 1–13. 31 January 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102016000687