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-NW34
Sampling Method:
Gravity Core
Collected Area:
North-western Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude:
-73.384
Longitude:
171.005
Collected date:
06/02/1999
Water depth (m):
485
Core length (cm):
358
Number of Sections:
3
Contacts:
museoantartide@units.it
Section Images:
Preliminary Description:
Inhomogeneous sediment with a lot of clasts is characterizing the whole core. Alternate areas in which the clasts are millimetric and centimetric and areas where only millimetric. Towards the bottom of the core there are layers with different density delimited by irregular contacts.