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	Siple Dome is referenced in the song "Fall of Sipledome" by thrash metal band Testament (on their 1999 album ''The Gathering'').		Siple Dome is referenced in the song "Fall of Sipledome" by thrash metal band Testament (on their 1999 album ''The Gathering'').

			==Protection by the government==
			The area had been identified as a candidate for protection under the [[Westarctican Parks Service]].

	[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]		[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]

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	[[File:Siple Dome Field Camp.jpg\|350px\|thumb\|The Field Camp at Siple Dome]]		[[File:Siple Dome Field Camp.jpg\|350px\|thumb\|The Field Camp at Siple Dome]]
	'''Siple Dome''' (81°39′15″S 149°00′18″W) is an [[ice]] dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of [[Siple Coast]] in [[Westarctica]]. Charles Bentley and Robert Thomas established a "strain rosette" on this feature to determine ice movement in 1973-74. They referred to the feature as Siple Dome because of its proximity to Siple Coast.		'''Siple Dome''' (81°39′15″S 149°00′18″W) is an [[ice]] dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of [[Siple Coast]] in [[Westarctica]]. Charles Bentley and Robert Thomas established a "strain rosette" on this feature to determine [[ice]] movement in 1973-74. They referred to the feature as Siple Dome because of its proximity to Siple Coast.

	==Climate==		==Climate==
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	==In popular culture==		==In popular culture==
	A documentary on climate change research associated with the Siple Dome ice core was produced by Nova: Warnings from the Ice, 1998. The documentary explains how reductions in Antarctic ice mass can raise sea level.		A documentary on climate change research associated with the Siple Dome ice core was produced by ''Nova: Warnings from the Ice'', 1998. The documentary explains how reductions in Antarctic ice mass can raise sea level.

	Siple Dome is referenced in the song "Fall of Sipledome" by thrash metal band Testament (on their 1999 album ''The Gathering'').		Siple Dome is referenced in the song "Fall of Sipledome" by thrash metal band Testament (on their 1999 album ''The Gathering'').

	[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]		[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]

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[[File:Siple Dome Field Camp.jpg|350px|thumb|The Field Camp at Siple Dome]]
'''Siple Dome''' (81°39′15″S 149°00′18″W) is an [[ice]] dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of [[Siple Coast]] in [[Westarctica]]. Charles Bentley and Robert Thomas established a "strain rosette" on this feature to determine ice movement in 1973-74. They referred to the feature as Siple Dome because of its proximity to Siple Coast.

==Climate==
The climate is ice cap (Köppen: ET), as is most of the continent. Without marine moderation and a few hundred meters above sea level, it has one of the harshest winters on the continent outside the [[Antarctic]] plateaus. Temperatures remain below freezing during the afternoon of the warmer months on average.

==Siple Dome ice core==
The Siple Dome ice core project (79.468° S 112.086° W) was conducted by the United States National Science Foundation. The deepest ice was recovered in 1999 from 974m, with an age of 97,600 years.

It is best known for the poorly-explained steps in water isotopes during the deglacial, which are unique to this core and may indicate a rapid decrease in the surface elevation of the adjoining [[Ice Stream|ice stream]]s during the deglacial and a record of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The Chief Scientist was Kendrick Taylor.

==Internal ice structure==
In the 1990s a team from the University of Washington and St Olaf College surveyed the ice, measuring thickness and determining internal structure, finding evidence for the operation of the Raymond Effect. They also found that the ice had a maximum thickness of around 1000m.

==In popular culture==
A documentary on climate change research associated with the Siple Dome ice core was produced by Nova: Warnings from the Ice, 1998. The documentary explains how reductions in Antarctic ice mass can raise sea level.

Siple Dome is referenced in the song "Fall of Sipledome" by thrash metal band Testament (on their 1999 album ''The Gathering'').

[[Category: Geography of Westarctica]]