MNA - Sede di Trieste

ANTA91-9C

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: 
ANTA91-9C
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
Drygalski Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-71.513
Longitude: 
171.904
Collected date: 
18/12/1990
Water depth (m): 
576
Core length (cm): 
496
Number of Sections: 
5
Publications: 
  • Brambati A., Fanzutti G.P., Finocchiaro F., Melis R., Pugliese N., Salvi G., Faranda C. 1999: Some Palaeoecological Remarks on the Ross Sea Shelf, Antarctica. In: F M Faranda; L Guglielmo; A Ianora. Ross Sea ecology: Italiantartide Expeditions (1987-1995). Berlino. Springer-Verlag, 2000, 51-61.
  • Melis, R., Salvi, G. 2020: Foraminifer and Ostracod Occurrence in a Cool-Water Carbonate Factory of the Cape Adare (Ross Sea, Antarctica): A Key Lecture for the Climatic and Oceanographic Variations in the Last 30,000 Years. Geosciences, 10, 413. doi:10.3390/geosciences10100413.
    • Contacts: 
    museoantartide@units.it
    Section Images: 
    Preliminary Description: 

    An alternation between coarse dense and fine less dense sediment. There are two net contacts at 374 and 378 cm. The clasts are mainly subcentimetric, rarely pluricentimetric. There are two shells at 118,5 cm and 347 cm.