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Articles | Volume 22
Technical development
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31 May 2017
Technical development |  | 31 May 2017

Facility for testing ice drills

Dennis L. Nielson, Chris Delahunty, John W. Goodge, and Jeffery P. Severinghaus

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The North American Testing (NAT) was designed to test critical functions of a Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) at a site in northern Utah. The RAID was designed to rapidly drill in Antarctica through over 2500 m of ice and then take a core sample of the bedrock. The system has many innovative features that required field testing before the system was shipped to Antarcitca. The NAT facility consisted of a borehole where we froze a column of ice to test drilling and fluid circulation functions.
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