The Cryosphere
The Cryosphere
TC
Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2427-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Special issue:
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2427-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
Research article
 | Highlight paper
 | 
02 Nov 2017
Research article | Highlight paper |  | 02 Nov 2017

Is there 1.5-million-year-old ice near Dome C, Antarctica?

Frédéric Parrenin, Marie G. P. Cavitte, Donald D. Blankenship, Jérôme Chappellaz, Hubertus Fischer, Olivier Gagliardini, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Olivier Passalacqua, Catherine Ritz, Jason Roberts, Martin J. Siegert, and Duncan A. Young

Viewed

Total article views: 10,522 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total BibTeX EndNote
7,142 3,112 268 10,522 250 320
  • HTML: 7,142
  • PDF: 3,112
  • XML: 268
  • Total: 10,522
  • BibTeX: 250
  • EndNote: 320
Views and downloads (calculated since 03 May 2017)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 03 May 2017)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 10,522 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 9,740 with geography defined and 782 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 
Latest update: 24 Nov 2025
Download
Short summary
The oldest dated deep ice core drilled in Antarctica has been retrieved at EPICA Dome C (EDC), reaching ~ 800 000 years. Obtaining an older palaeoclimatic record from Antarctica is one of the greatest challenges of the ice core community. Here, we estimate the age of basal ice in the Dome C area. We find that old ice (> 1.5 Myr) likely exists in two regions a few tens of kilometres away from EDC: Little Dome C Patch and North Patch.
Read more
Share
Special issue
Oldest Ice: finding and interpreting climate proxies in ice...