MNA - Sede di Trieste

PNRA Expedition: 
XIV (1998-1999)
Chief Scientist: 
N. Corradi (Univ. Genova)
Research Project: 
2a.1.4 - Recent climatic cycles in marine sediments of the Ross Sea
Sedimentology Principal Investigator: 
G. Fontolan (Univ. Trieste)
Label: 
ANTA99-cJ5
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
Joides Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-73.824
Longitude: 
175.650
Collected date: 
20/01/1999
Water depth (m): 
598
Core length (cm): 
553
Number of Sections: 
5
Publications: 
  • Melis R, Salvi G., 2009: Late Quaternary foraminiferal assemblages from western Ross Sea (Antarctica) in relation to the main glacial and marine lithofacies. Marine Micropaleontology, 70: 39–53.
  • Mezgec K., Melis R, Crosta X, Traversi R, Severi M, Stenni B, Braida M., Colizza E., 2013: Holocene climate variability in northwestern Ross Sea area, East Antarctica. Geoitalia 2013, IX forum, 16-18 september 2013, Pisa (Italy), Poster.
  • Mezgec K., Melis R., Crosta X., Traversi R., Severi M., Colizza E., Braida M., Stenni B., 2013: Sea ice variability during the Holocene: evidence from marine and ice cores in the Ross Sea area, East Antarctica. EGU General Assembly 2013, 7-12 april 2013 Wien (Austria), Abstract.
  • Salvi C., Salvi G., Stenni B., Brambati A., 2004: Palaeoproductivity in the Ross Sea, Antartica, during the last 15 kyr BP and its link with ice-core temperature proxies. Annals of Glaciology 39: 445-450.
  • Stenni B., Crosta X., Braida M., Masson-Delmotte V., Oerter H., Kuhn G., Pol K., Colizza E., Delmonte B., Selmo E., Pike J., Bonazza M., Allen C., 2011: Reconstructing Antarctic Holocene climate/environmental changes from ice and marine cores. 11th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, 10-15 july 2011, University of Edinburg, p.97.
  • Traversi R., Becagli S., Colizza E, G. Gori G., Marconi M., Melis R., Mezgec K., Severi M., Stenni B., Udisti R., 2013: Reconstruction of environmental features by elemental stratigraphies of Antarctic marine sediments. Geoitalia 2013, IX forum, 16-18 september 2013, Pisa (Italy), Poster.
  • Traversi R., Becagli S., Colizza E., Frosini D., Gori G., Marconi M., Melis R., Mezgec K., Severi M., Stenni B., Udisti R. (2013) Metal stratigraphies from Antarctic marine sediments: hints for paleoclimatic reconstructions. Congresso di Chimica Analitica, Sestri Legvante (Ge) (Genova, 15-19 september 2013, Genova (Italy), Abstract.
  • Mezgec K., Stenni B., Crosta X., Masson-Delmotte V., Baroni C., Braida M., Ciardini V., Colizza E., Melis R., Salvatore M.C., Severi M., Scarchilli C., Traversi R., Udisti R., Frezzotti M., 2017: Holocene sea ice variability driven by wind and polynya efficiency in the Ross Sea. Nature Communications 8, Article number: 1334, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01455-x.
  • Contacts: 
    museoantartide@units.it
    Section Images: 
    Preliminary Description: 

    Homogeneous, coarse and dense sediment with a lot of millimetric clasts along the whole core. There are centimetric clasts from 184 and 203 cm and iso-oriented clasts between 6 and 16 cm.