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Permafrost drilling to start in Svalbard
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- Created on Monday, 26 March 2012 13:35
A large PAGE21 permafrost drilling campaign is starting today, 26 March, in Adventdalen, led by the University Centre in Svalbard. "During 10 days we aim to collect between 60 and 100 m of permafrost cores from ice-wedge polygons, pingos and solifluction sheets in Adventdalen. In Svalbard, we have so far only been able to obtain hand drilled permafrost cores down typically 2 m into the permafrost top. However, with the combination of funding from PAGE21 and from a collaboration project with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, called SVALASKA, we have been able to buy a specially designed hydraulic drill rig, which is able to collect cores from the permafrost in both sediments and bedrock down to potentially 50 m depth.", says Hanne Christiansen, Professor in physical geography and leader of the UNIS PAGE21 project.To read the article at the UNIS webpage, please click HERE
