Keywords:
Geophysics.
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Geotechnical engineering.
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Physical geography.
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Geophysics.
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Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences.
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Physical Geography.
Description / Table of Contents:
Hot-Point Drills -- Electric Thermal Coring Drills -- Hot-Water Ice Drills -- Steam Ice Drills -- Perspectives For Future Development of Thermal Ice-Drilling Technology.
Abstract:
This book provides a review of thermal ice drilling technologies, including the design, parameters, and performance of various tools and drills for making holes in ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice. In recent years, interest in thermal drilling technology has increased as a result of subglacial lake explorations and extraterrestrial investigations. The book focuses on the latest ice drilling technologies, but also discusses the historical development of ice drilling tools and devices over the last 100 years to offer valuable insights into what is possible and what not to do in the future. Featuring numerous figures and pictures, many of them published for the first time, it is intended for specialists working in ice-core sciences, polar oceanography, drilling engineers and glaciologists, and is also a useful reference for researchers and graduate students working in engineering and cold-regions technology.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
XII, 278 p. 348 illus., 176 illus. in color.
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online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2020.
ISBN:
9789811388484
Series Statement:
Springer Geophysics,
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8848-4
DOI:
10.1007/978-981-13-8848-4
DDC:
550
Language:
English
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