Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2000-01: VUWAE 45
Crary Laboratory
Crary Laboratory
Ice cores were to be split and logged in a working freezer at the Crary laboratory, McMurdo Station, over a two week period. An ice core light table helped to record crystal structures, melt and dust layers and to identify areas of material loss. However the fresh water ice core band saw had been used by other research groups to cut sea ice cores and fish, which prohibited the use of the saw for our samples. For this reason we were unable to split the cores, and they were subsequently all sent to the United States for processing.