Tephra in Siple and Taylor Dome Ice Cores  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0110
Summary
This data set consists of electron microprobe geochemical analyses of glass shards sampled from Siple Dome and Taylor Dome ice cores during the 1999-2000 field season. Geochemical data are in tab-delimited ASCII and Excel formats. Backscattered electron images of tephra samples are in TIFF format. Data are available via ftp.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: -81°
S: -81°
E: -148°
W: -148°
N: -77.8°
S: -77.8°
E: 158.71°
W: 158.71°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Nelia Dunbar
Dataset Title: Tephra in Siple and Taylor Dome Ice Cores
Dataset Release Date: 2002-06-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0110.html
Dataset DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N50P0WXF
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1999-01-01
Stop Date: 2000-12-31
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT ANTARCTICA SIPLE DOME
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION POLAR
Science Keywords
- Paleoclimate Ice Core Records Volcanic Deposits
Ancillary Keywords
- AGDC
- Chlorine
- Geochemistry
- Glaciology
- Glass Shards
- Ice Cores
- Iron Oxide
- Magnesium Oxide
- Manganese Oxide
- Nickel Oxide
- Nitrogen
- NSIDC
- NSIDC-0110
- OPP9615167
- OPP-9615167
- Potassium Dioxide
- Silicon Dioxide
- Siple Dome
- Sulfur Dioxide
- Taylor Dome
- Tephra
- Titanium Dioxide
- Volcanic
Platform
- GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Instrument
- CORING DEVICES
- ELECTRON MICROPROBES
Data Set Progress
complete
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/agdc/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC AGDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC U.S. Antarctic Data Coordination Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/usadcc/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USADCC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 139 - 890 MB
Distribution Format: TIFF
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 34 KB
Distribution Format: Microsoft Excel
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 5 KB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Personnel
Nelia Dunbar
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources
- Earth and Environmental Science Department
- New Mexico Tech
City: Socorro
Province or State: NM
Postal Code: 87801-4796
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Reference
Dunbar, N., G. Zielinski, and D. Voisins. 2002. Tephra layers in the Siple and Taylor Dome Ice Cores, Antarctica: Correlations and sources. In press.
Dunbar, N., R. Esser, and W. McIntosh. 1998. Englacial tephra layers in West Antarctica: Implications for the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Antarctic Journal of the U.S. 33.
Dunbar, N., R. Esser, W. McIntosh, P. Kyle, and G. Zielinski. 1997. Englacial tephra layers in the East and West Antarctic ice sheets: Indicators of glacial flow patterns on ice sheet margins. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 78:F250.
Dunbar, N. R. Esser, W. McIntosh, G. Zielinski, and P. Kyle. 1997. Englacial tephra layers in West Antarctica: Implications for the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: 4th Annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop.
Dunbar, N., W. McIntosh, R. Esser, T. Wilch, and G. Zielinski. 1998. Direct dating and geochemical correlations of englacial tephra layers at two sites in West Antarctica, in Proceedings of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Meeting Chapman Conference, Sept. 13-18, 1998, Orono, Maine: 18-19.
Dunbar, N., W. McIntosh, R. Esser, T. Wilch, and G. Zielinski. 1999. Englacial tephrochronology in West Antarctica: Constraints on ice sheet history, and potential longer ice records, in 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: 100.
Esser, R., R. Kyle, and N. Dunbar. 1999. 40Ar/39Ar chronology of the Pleiades Volcanic Centre, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: A potential source of late-pleistocene englacial tephra layers, in 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: 100.
Licht, K., N. Dunbar, A. Jennings, and J. Andrews. 1999. Sedimentological evidence for the maximum extent of grounded ice in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica during the last glacial maximum. Geological Society of America Bulletin 111(1):91-103.
Wilch, T. 1998. Volcanic record of the West Antarctic ice sheet in Marie Byrd Land [PhD thesis]: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 160 pp.
Wilch, T., W. McIntosh, and N. Dunbar. 1999. Late quaternary volcanic activity in Marie Byrd Land: Potential 40Ar/39Ar dated time horizons in West Antarctic ice and marine cores: Geological Society of America Bulletin 111:1563-1580.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2002-06-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-03-15
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