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:
Contacts:
museoantartide@units.it
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.