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Mount Moulton

General Information

During the 2003/04 Antarctic field season, PI Todd Sowers and colleagues collected cores from the blue ice areas at Mount Moulton. The core in the NSF-ICF archive is not continuous; however, large samples are available. The lat/long for the core is a best-estimate based on published results from other cores in the area. Mount Moulton is in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, and its blue ice area offers an ice record dating back beyond 140,000 years.

Core(s) Available

Core Name Core ID Years Drilled Lat/Long Core Top (m) Core Bottom (m) Core Diameter (cm) Site Elevation Drilling Method Drillers Drilling Fluid Original PI PI Affiliation De-accessed
Moulton Blue Ice 2 MBI2 2003/04 -76.0666667, -134.7 0.00 34.34 2820 Todd Sowers Penn State University Yes
Publications
  • Korotkikh E, Mayewski PA, Handley M, Introne D, Sneed S, Kurbatov A, Dunbar N, McIntosh W (2011) The last interglacial as represented in the glaciochemical record from Mount Moulton Blue Ice Area, West Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(15-16), 1940-1947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.020