Progress report on Beyond EPICA – oldest ice (BE-OI) Little Dome C (LDC) activity
- 1Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Glaziologie, Bremerhaven, Germany (Frank.Wilhelms@awi.de)
- 2Georg-August-Universität, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Geochemie und Isotopengeologie, Göttingen, Germany
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Beyond EPICA – oldest ice aims at retrieving a continuous ice core record of climate feedback and forcing spanning about 1.5 Ma back in time. After determining a suitable drill-site LDC during an extensive pre-site survey 35 km southwest of Concordia station, we are in the second deep drilling season. At the time of submission of this abstract, we penetrated beyond 1604.92 m, roughly spanning one glacial-interglacial cycle. We will report on the drilling and core processing activities and verify the prognostic age scale by comparison with dielectric profiling (DEP) and stable isotope saw dust measurements in the field.
Frank Wilhelms (1,2), Olivier Alemany (3), Steffen Bo Hansen (4), Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (4,5), Hubertus Fischer (6), Amaelle Landais (7), Ailsa Chung (3), Frédéric Parrenin (3), Carlo Barbante (8,9), Melanie Behrens (1), Nicolas Bienville (7), Andrea Ceinini (11), Giuditta Celli (9), Rémi Dallmayr (1), Andrea De Vito (11), Romain Duphil (3), Inès Gay (12), Tamara Gerber (4), Markus Grimmer (6), Romilly Harris-Stuart (7), Maria Hörhold (1), Matthias Hüther (1), Fortunat Joos (6), Iben Koldtoft (4), Florian Krauß (6), Gunther Lawer (1), Johannes Lemburg (1), Martin Leonhardt (1), Bénédicte Minster (7), Michaela Mühl (6), Robert Mulvaney (10), Saverio Panichi (11), Philippe Possenti (3), Michele Scalet (11), Federico Scoto (9,13), James Veale (10), Julien Westhoff (4), Eric Wolff (14)
How to cite: Wilhelms, F. and the LDC field parties 2022/2023 & 2023/2024, drill & science workpackage, stable isotope field measurements group: Progress report on Beyond EPICA – oldest ice (BE-OI) Little Dome C (LDC) activity, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-8041, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8041, 2024.
