Chief Scientist:
G. Spezie (Ist. Nav. Napoli)
Research Project:
2a - Glaciology and paleoclimate. Biogenic sedimentation
Sedimentology Principal Investigator:
M. Ravaioli (CNR Bologna)
Collected Area:
Glomar Challenger Basin (Ross Sea)
Publications:
Bonaccorsi R., Brambati A., Busetti, Fanzutti G.P., 2000: Relationship among X-ray lithofacies, magnetic susceptibility p-wave velocity and bulk density in core ANTA 95-89C (Ross Sea, Antarctica): first results. Terra Antarctica Reports, 2000, 4: 241-258. Bonaccorsi R., Melis R., 2001: Persistence of living planktonic foraminifera (Neogloboquadrina pachyderma) in Antarctic sea-ice infferred from a study of a sediment core (Ross Sea continental margin). In Chela-Flores J., Owen T., Raulin F. (eds.) "First Step in the Origin of Life in the Universe", 2001 Kluwer Academ. Publ., Netherlands, 255-260. Bonaccorsi R., Quaia T., Burckle H., Anderson R.F., Melis R., Brambati A., 2007: C-14 age control of pre- and post-LGM events using N. pachyderma preserved in deep-sea sediments (Ross Sea, Antarctica), in "Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World - Online Prooocedings of the 10th ISAES X, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., USGS Open-File Report 2007 - 1047, Extended Abstract 098, 1-4. Brambati A., 2000: Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental Records in sediments from the Southern Ocean (Strait of Magellan and Ross Sea). Terra Antarctica Reports, 2000, 4: 1-41. Brambati A., Bonaccorsi R., Colizza E., Finocchiaro F., Melis R., Pizzolato F., Quaia T., Salvi G., Salvi C., 2001: Sedimentology as a basic tool fore palaeoceanographyc investigations. 2th International Conference on the Oceanography of the Ross Sea - Antarctica. 8-13 ottobre 2001, Ischia, Poster.