RIDS | NSF Ice Core Facility

General Information

The RIDS (Ross ice drainage system) cores are annually dated 10 cm diameter cores drilled in 1995 from the Marie Byrd Land region of West Antarctica. The period of record in the RIDS95A core is 1831-1995. The period of record in the RIDS95B core is 1925-1995. The period of record in the RIDS95C core is 1905-1995 (Kreutz and others, 2000). The RIDS95A archive is not continuous.

Core(s) Available

Core Name	Core ID	Years Drilled	Lat/Long	Core Bottom (m)	Core Diameter (cm)	Site Elevation	Drilling Method	Drillers	Drilling Fluid	Original PI	PI Affiliation	De-accessed
RIDS95A	RIDS95A	1995	-77.7333333, -116.3333333	150.00	10.00	1740	Electromechanical	PICO-UNL	PICO-UNL	Paul Mayewski	Univ. of New Hampshire	Yes
RIDS95B	RIDS95B	1995	-79.4608333, -118.0444444	60.00	10.00	1603	Electromechanical	PICO-UNL	Dry	Paul Mayewski	Univ. of New Hampshire	Yes
RIDS95C	RIDS95C	1995	-79.9988889, -79.9988889	60.00	10.00	1530	Electromechanical	PICO-UNL	Dry	Paul Mayewski	Univ. of New Hampshire	Yes
RIDSBETA	RIDSBETA	1995	-77.7333333, -116.3333333	19.00	10.00	1750	Electromechanical	PICO-UNL	Dry	Paul Mayewski	Univ. of New Hampshire	Yes

Data

Mayewski PA and others. (2005) "Ross Ice Drainage System (RIDS) Glaciochemical Analysis" U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/N5M906KG. Contains depth-age scales.
Severinghaus JP and others. (2004) "Siple Dome Ice Core Chemistry and Ion Data" U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/.

Publications

Dixon D, Mayewski P, Kaspari S, Kreutz K, Hamilton G, Maasch K, Maasch K, Sneed SB, Handley MJ (2005) A 200 year sulfate record from 16 Antarctic ice cores and associations with Southern Ocean sea-ice extent. Annals of Glaciology, 41, 155-166. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756405781813366
Frey MM, Bales RC, McConnell JR (2006) Climate sensitivity of the century-scale hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) record preserved in 23 ice cores from West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111(D21301). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JD006816
Kaspari S, Mayewski P, Dixon D, Spikes V, Sneed S, Handley M, and Hamilton G (2004) Climate variability in West Antarctica derived from annual accumulation-rate records from ITASE firn/ice cores. Annals of Glaciology, 39, 585-594. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756404781814447
Kreutz KJ and Mayewski PA (1999) Spatial variability of Antarctic surface snow glaciochemistry: implications for paleoatmospheric circulations. Antarctic Science, 11(1), 105-118.
Kreutz KJ, Mayewski PA, Meeker LD, Twickler MS, Whitlow SI (2000) The effect of spatial and temporal accumulation rate variability in West Antarctica on soluble ion deposition. Geophysical Research Letters, 27 (16): 2517-2520. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000GL011499
Price PB and Bay RC (2012) Marine bacteria in deep Arctic and Antarctic ice cores: a proxy for evolution in oceans over 300 million generations. Biogeosciences, 9, 3799–3815. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-3799-2012