MNA - Sede di Trieste

PNRA Expedition: 
VI (1990-1991)
Chief Scientist: 
F. Giorgetti (Univ. Trieste)
Research Project: 
Sedimentology and seabed sampling
Sedimentology Principal Investigator: 
M. Ravaioli (CNR Bologna)
Label: 
ANTA91-28Cbis
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
Drygalski Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-74.658
Longitude: 
167.213
Collected date: 
02/01/1991
Water depth (m): 
975
Core length (cm): 
191
Number of Sections: 
2
Publications: 
  • Brambati A., 2000: Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental Records in sediments from the Southern Ocean (Strait of Magellan and Ross Sea). Terra Antarctica Reports, 4: 1-41.
  • Brambati A., Corradi N., Finocchiaro F, Giglio F., 2002: The position of the Last Glacial Maximum grounding line in the Joides Basin: an interpretation based on sedimentological and geotechnical data. In: Gamble J.A., Skinner D.N.B., Henrys S., Lynch R. (Editors) Antarctic Earth Sciences at the Close of a Millennium. Proceedings Volume 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin, 35: 365-372.
  • Brambati A., Melis R., Quaia T., Salvi G., 2002: Late Quaternary climatic changes in the Ross Sea Area, Antarctica. In: Gamble J.A., Skinner D.N.B., Henrys, S. (eds.). Antarctica at the close of a Millennium. Proceedings Volume 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin, 35: 359-364.
  • Frignani M., Giglio F., Langone L., Ravaioli M., Mangini A., 1998: Late pleistocene-holocene sedimentary fluxes of organic carbon and biogenic silica in the nortwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 27: 697-703.
  • 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.
  • Contacts: 
    museoantartide@units.it
    Section Images: 
    Preliminary Description: 

    Homogeneous sediment with a few clasts up to 82 cm. The sediment becomes inhomogeneous between 82 and 116 cm. At 128 cm the sediment is less dense and rich in clasts (millimetric to centimetric in length).