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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2000-01: VUWAE 45

2) Proposed Programme

2) Proposed Programme

The main technical objective of the season was to test the capabilities and design of the refurbished Winkie drilling system which was modified for air coring. Along with this objective, there were three scientific objectives: 1) to provide a series of shallow (2 m) cores to assess the degree of contamination of diesel drilling fluid around DVDP-6 (drilled in 1972), and to locate and re-enter this hole to assess its current status; 2) to provide stratigraphic cores of the Sirius Group at Allan Hills and Mt Feather for thickness and facies analyses; 3) to provide shallow cores for comparative age analyses by Be and N inventory of three different aged deposits (Sirius, Sirius regolith, and debris flow) at Table Mt and deployment of 2 m thermistor probes in two of those deposits which have pattern ground.