2. 2010

Bedrock

Bedrock was reached Tuesday July 27, 2010 at the deep ice core drilling site NEEM on the Greenland Ice Sheet at the depth of 2537,36 m
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There had been lots of problems when drilling this piece of ice. When the ice was seen it was obvious that the high load of small stones was causing the problems.<br /> Photo: Kenji Kawamura
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There had been lots of problems when drilling this piece of ice. When the ice was seen it was obvious that the high load of small stones was causing the problems.
Photo: Kenji Kawamura

  • There had been lots of problems when drilling this piece of ice. When the ice was seen it was obvious that the high load of small stones was causing the problems.<br /> Photo: Kenji Kawamura
  • Dark bands with high loads of small stones is not easy to penetrate with a drill designed for ice<br /> <br /> Photo: Kenji Kawamura
  • At 2522.08 meters depth these bands were found<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • At 2519.65 meters depth yet another set of stony bands appeared
  • Everybody wants to know when bedrock is reached, thus the bands are shown to all interested
  • The drilling team
  • The saw blades are broken in the next runs, changed and broken again, have bedrock been reached? How should we continue?<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • Thick bands with high concentration of small rocks broke the sawblades<br /> <br /> Photo: Tim Burton
  • The same piece of ice<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • In the thick stone bands this 5 cm long stone was found<br /> <br /> Photo: Kenji Kawamura
  • The drill actually drilled through one of the rocks! Though it is made for ice<br /> <br /> Photo: Kenji Kawamura
  • The drill actually drilled through one of the rocks! Though it is made for ice<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • Celebrating the bedrock has been reached
  • Celebrating the bedrock has been reached<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • Celebrating the bedrock has been reached calls for whisky<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • Press is also interested!<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • Special cake to celebrate<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
  • The team that were present when bedrock was reached<br /> <br /> Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl
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