MNA - Sede di Trieste

PNRA Expedition: 
XI (1995-1996)
Chief Scientist: 
A. Artegiani (CNR Ancona)
Research Project: 
2a.7 - Clastic sedimentation (II part)
Sedimentology Principal Investigator: 
G. Fontolan (Univ. Trieste)
Label: 
ANTA96-4
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
Glomar Challenger Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-77.632
Longitude: 
-177.418
Collected date: 
21/01/1996
Water depth (m): 
657
Core length (cm): 
200
Number of Sections: 
2
Contacts: 
museoantartide@units.it
Section Images: 
Preliminary Description: 

The core is composed of inhomogeneous sediment with gradual passages from dense sediment to less dense one with two net contacts at 10 and 12 cm. There are a lot of millimetric clasts, few ones are centimetric. There are laminations caused by the reduced amount of sediment between 98 e 176 cm.