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Direct-Push Drilling

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Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology

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Direct-push drilling technology includes methods that advance a drill by pushing, hammering, or vibrating. Although these methods do not meet the proper definition of drilling, they do achieve the same result—a borehole and, if applicable, a core. Direct-push drilling tools do not remove cuttings from the hole. Rather, deepening occurs due to the compression of the formation. Properly speaking, direct-push drilling cannot be used in solid ice, but it can be considered for investigations of compressible snow-firn layers. Two direct-push methods for snow-firn drilling have recently been used: (1) drive sampling and (2) penetrative testing.

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Talalay, P.G. (2016). Direct-Push Drilling. In: Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0560-2_3

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