ON THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OF DEEP ICE-CORE DRILLING AT VOSTOK STATION


https://doi.org/10.15356/2076-6734-2012-4-5-8


Abstract

This article describes a history of revealing the Antarctic sub-glacialLakeVostokas well as organization and further progress of the Soviet/Russian deep drilling project in the Central Antarctica, and, thus, the long-standing cooperation between USSR/Russia,Franceand theUSAunder this project. The works lasted for several decades and were successfully completed with penetration into the lake that should be recognized as major achievement in the field of the Earth sciences in the early XXI century.


About the Author

V. M. Kotlyakov
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Russian Federation


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