Images of ice core sections that have been processed at the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory

Ice core sections are archival cuts which have are rough-out rounds of ice with a single plane cut along one side. Illumation is provided to the sides of the ice section using fiberoptic light guides connected to a 1000W xenon light source.

Original image resolution varies, generally in the range of 0.05 to 0.1 mm. This record is associated with the following collaborative research efforts - National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Award numbers: OPP-0230149 at the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, the University of Nevada Desert Research Institute and OPP-0229609 Department of Geosciences, and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University.