MNA - Sede di Trieste

ANTA99-cNW27

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-NW27
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
North-western Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-72.994
Longitude: 
172.092
Collected date: 
05/02/1999
Water depth (m): 
524
Core length (cm): 
327
Number of Sections: 
3
Publications: 
  • Bertagnini A., Baneschi I., Boschi C., Cascella A., Colizza E., Del Carlo P., Di Roberto A., Di Vincenzo G., Finocchiaro F., Landi P., Lirer F., Pompilio M., Sagnotti L., Sangiorgi F., Sprovieri M., Wrinkler A., 2013: Multidisciplinary study of sediments deposited in the Ross Sea (Antarctica): information on changes of ice extent during the last 130 ka. Geoitalia 2013, IX forum, 16-18 september 2013, Pisa (Italy), Poster.
  • Colizza E., Finocchiaro F., Marinoni L., Menegazzo – Vitturi L., Brambati A., 2002: Tephra evidences in marine sediments of the shelf of the western Ross Sea. Milano. CONGA, 25-26 june 2002, Milano. Poster.
  • Colizza E., Finocchiaro F., Marinoni L., Menegazzo Vitturi L., Brambati A., 2003: Tephra Evidence in Marine Sediments from Shelf of the Western Ross Sea. Terra Antartica Reports, 8, 121-126.
  • Colizza E., Melis R., Finocchiaro F., Rosso A. Bandelli N., 2001: Carbonate-rich intervals in Late Quaternary glaciomarine sequences of the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Paleobiogeography & Paleoecology 2001-International Conference, 31 maggio-2 june 2001, Piacenza e Castell’Arquato. Poster.
  • Del Carlo P., Baneschi I., Bertagnini A., Boschi C., Cascella A., Colizza E., Di Roberto A., Di Vincenzo G., Finocchiaro F., Landi P., Lirer F., Pompilio M., Sagnotti L., Sangiorgi F., Sprovieri M., Wrinkler A., 2013: Multidisciplinary study of sediments deposited in the Ross Sea (Antarctica) during the last 50 ka: information on changes of ice extent during the glacial-interglacial transition. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-9519, 2013, EGU General Assembly 2013, 7-12 april 2013 Wien (Austria), Poster.
  • 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.
  • Melis R., Colizza E., Pizzolato F., Rosso A., 2002: Preliminary study of the calcareous taphocoenoses in Late Quaternary glacial marine sequences of Ross Sea (Antarctica). Geobios, Mem.Sp. 24, 35: 207-218.
    • Contacts: 
    museoantartide@units.it
    Section Images: 
    Preliminary Description: 

    The sediment is inhomogeneous with dense and less dense levels up to 233 cm. From 233 cm up to the bottom it becomes homogeneous. The contacts are net, but some ones are irregular. There are a lot of clasts and the sediment becomes grain supported between 29 and 78 cm. Between 86 and 92 cm and between 207 and 233 cm there are millimetric laminations.