Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2000-01 - AM02 seawater and sediment samples, plus AWS data

Created 18/11/2025

Updated 18/11/2025

AM02 borehole drilled December 2000. Several Niskin water bottle samples collected in ocean cavity. 1.44 m sediment core collected from seafloor at 780 m below sea level. Ongoing Automatic Weather Station data available on: http://aws.acecrc.org.au/ Consult Readme file.

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Title Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2000-01 - AM02 seawater and sediment samples, plus AWS data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/a3e42a8e-6317-433d-b5c4-2294623b7b10
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2001 - 31/12/2007
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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        -69.711
      ],
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        -69.71
      ],
      [
        72.64,
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      ],
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      ]
    ]
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}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Amery Ice Shelf - hot water drill borehole, 2000-01 - AM02 seawater and sediment samples, plus AWS data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/amery-ice-shelf-hot-water-drill-borehole-2000-01-am02-seawater-and-sediment-samples-plus-aws-da2