Amery Ice Shelf Borehole Drilling Logs from 2000

Logging files document hot water drilling operations on the Amery Ice Shelf in December 2000. Data includes measurements of water pressure, temperature, flow rate, drill speed, and depth. The dataset was collected by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre and last updated in 2001.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between drill speed and depth to model ice penetration efficiency.
• Correlate water pressure and flow rate with temperature to study borehole thermodynamics.
• Use depth and time-series data to reconstruct the drilling progress and operational phases.

Strengths

• Contains multiple operational parameters: water pressure, temperature, flow rate, drill speed, and depth.
• Data captures a specific, documented drilling event in December 2000.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count and file size.
• Data is over 20 years old, limiting analysis of recent conditions.

Provenance

Source

Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AU_AADC) via NASA Earthdata.

Collection Method

Collected from instruments during hot water drilling operations.

Time Range

December 2000.

Freshness

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Geography

Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica (specific AM02 borehole location).