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U.S. ANTARCTIC PROGRAM DATA CENTER

Project Information
Collaborative Research: Borehole Logging to Classify Volcanic Signatures in Antarctic Ice
Short Title:
Automated c-axis (ALPACA) images of previously-studied WDC-06A thin sections
Start Date:
2017-05-08
End Date:
2019-09-30
Program:
WAIS Divide Ice Core
Description/Abstract
This dataset comprises new photographs and measurements of a WAIS Divide vertical thin section, WDC-06A 420 VTS, previously prepared and measured by J. Fitzpatrick, D. E. Voigt, and R. Alley (dataset DOI: 10.7265/N5W093VM; http://www.usap-dc.org/view/dataset/609605) as part of a larger study of the WAIS Divide ice core (Fitzpatrick, J. et al, 2014, Physical properties of the WAIS Divide ice core, Journal of Glaciology, 60, 224, 1181-1198. (doi:10.3189/2014JoG14J100). These images were taken as a design test of our new automated lightweight c-axis analyzer, dubbed ALPACA, which implements the ice fabric analysis functionality of the Wilen system used by Fitzpatrick et al. in an easily-portable, field-deployable form factor.
Personnel
Person Role
Talghader, Joseph Investigator and contact
Mah, Merlin Researcher
Funding
Antarctic Instrumentation and Facilities Award # 1643864
Antarctic Instrumentation and Support Award # 1643864
AMD - DIF Record(s)
USAP-1643864_1
Data Management Plan
None in the Database
Product Level:
1 (processed data)
Datasets
Repository Title (link) Format(s) Status
USAP-DC Automated c-axis stage images of WDC-06A 420 vertical thin section from WAIS Divide, Antarctica None exists
Publications
  1. M. L. Mah, W. S. Chan, D. A. Hultman, J. J. Fitzpatrick, D. E. Voigt, and J. J. Talghader, “Compact field-deployable automated c-axis analyzer for ice thin sections,” submitted to J. Glaciol, 2020. Preprint available at ESSOAr. (doi:10.1002/essoar.10502183.1)
Keywords
Platforms and Instruments

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