The Lake El'gygytgyn scientific drilling project - conquering Arctic challenges through continental drilling

Scientific Drilling

Volumn , Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-40

  Melles, Martin ^a   Brigham Grette, Julie ^b   Minyuk, Pavel ^c   Koeberl, Christian ^d,e   Andreev, Andrei ^a   Cook, Timothy ^b   Fedorov, Grigory ^f   Gebhardt, Catalina ^g   Haltia Hovi, Eeva ^h   Kukkonen, Maaret ^a   Nowaczyk, Norbert ^h   Schwamborn, Georg ^g   Wennrich, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^f ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; CORE DRILLING; DEPOSITS; DRILLING PLATFORMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; METEOR IMPACTS; METEORITES; PERMAFROST; RECOVERY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

ALLUVIAL FANS; BASEMENT ROCKS; DRILL CORE; DRILLING TARGETS; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ICE COVER; ICE-RICH PERMAFROST; IMPACT EVENTS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LEVEL FLUCTUATION; METEORITE IMPACT; MID-PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE DEPOSITS; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING; SIBERIA; UNDERLYING ROCKS;

LAKES;

EID: 79955134100     PISSN: 18168957     EISSN: 18163459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2204/iodp.sd.11.03.2011     Document Type: Article

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