Description of Data Files
Catalog of Boreholes from Russia and Mongolia
Each individual borehole contains the following entires:
- Number of the borehole
- Coordinates of the borehole
- Altitude of the borehole
- Location (address) of the borehole
- Oil and gas bearing structure or deposit surrounding the borehole
- Morphogenetic type of landscape surrounding the borehole
- Depth of the borehole
- Temperature at a depth of zero
- Thickness of unlithified deposits
- Depth of top and bottom of permafrost
- Method of determination of permafrost thickness
- Source of information
All depths are in meters.
- File: brhcat.dat
- Location: throughout Russia and Mongolia
- Time Period: Varies for each borehole, primarily late 1980's to early 1990's
Data provided by E.S. Melnikov, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch.
