General concept of a deep hot water drilling system and drilling strategy to access Subglacial Lake Qilin, East Antarctica

Pavel G. Talalay; Nan Zhang; Xiaopeng Fan; Bing Li; Yuansheng Li; Haibin Yu; Heng Zuo; Lin Li; Guitao Shi; Weiping Shi; Mingyi Guo; Yang Yang; Ting Wang; Da Gong; Jialin Hong; Yazhou Li

doi:10.30758/0555-2648-2024-70-4-514-524

General concept of a deep hot water drilling system and drilling strategy to access Subglacial Lake Qilin, East Antarctica

Pavel G. Talalay, Nan Zhang, Xiaopeng Fan, Bing Li, Yuansheng Li, Haibin Yu, Heng Zuo, Lin Li, Guitao Shi, Weiping Shi, Mingyi Guo, Yang Yang, Ting Wang, Da Gong, Jialin Hong, Yazhou Li

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Deep Antarctic subglacial lakes represent physically unexplored aquatic environments, the investigation of which may provide unique information about microbial evolution, past climate of the Earth, and formation of the Antarctic ice sheet. Subglacial Lake Qilin identified in the middle part of the Princess Elizabeth Land is recognized as one of the ideal lakes for upcoming exploration. Currently, R&D work to develop a deep hot water drilling system to access this lake has been started in China, and the paper presents a general concept of the system and the brief description of the drilling strategy. Access drilling to the lake is planned for the season 2026/27.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	514-524
Number of pages	11
Journal	Problemy Arktiki i Antarktiki
Volume	70
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.30758/0555-2648-2024-70-4-514-524
State	Published - 19 Dec 2024

Keywords

clean access
hot-water drilling system
subglacial lake

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Talalay, P. G., Zhang, N., Fan, X., Li, B., Li, Y., Yu, H., Zuo, H., Li, L., Shi, G., Shi, W., Guo, M., Yang, Y., Wang, T., Gong, D., Hong, J., & Li, Y. (2024). General concept of a deep hot water drilling system and drilling strategy to access Subglacial Lake Qilin, East Antarctica. Problemy Arktiki i Antarktiki, 70(4), 514-524. https://doi.org/10.30758/0555-2648-2024-70-4-514-524

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