 Drilling for firn samples with a sipre core on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. |
 Core from Guliya (China) at 295 meters below the surface. This sample is dated at over half a million years old. |
 Ice from Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) containing a large number of macroscopically visible particulates. |
 Device used to obtain clean samples from the interior of ice cores. |
 Sample head removed after ice core melting. |
 Class 100 clean room used for sampling of ice core materials. |
 Bacteria cultured from an ice core originating from Guliya, China. |
 SEM image of an unusual morphotype in filtered melt water from Lake Vostok accretion ice. |
 Pollen grain from 200 year-old ice from Guliya, China. |
 Diatom from 20,000 year old ice from Sajama, Bolivia. |
 Rod from 20,000 year- old ice from Sajama, Bolivia. |
 Coccus from 1,800 year-old ice from Taylor, Dome (Antarctica). |