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: 
ANTA96-8
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
Joides Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-75.445
Longitude: 
171.332
Collected date: 
21/01/1996
Water depth (m): 
583
Core length (cm): 
174
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 Antartica Reports 2000, 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.
  • Finocchiaro F., Melis R., Tosato M., 2000: Late Quaternary environmental events in two cores from Southern Joides Basin (Ross Sea, Antarctica). Terra Antarctica Reports, 2000, 4, 125-130.
  • 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: 

    The sediment is characterized by laminations and it contains a lot of clasts in the denser ones (dense laminations are centimetric and low dense ones are millimetric). From 42 cm up to the bottom the sediment becomes coarse, inhomogeneous and rich in clasts.