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

The dataset is comprised of optical images of ice core sections that were acquired with a digital line-scan camera in the cold room facility at the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL). 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.