PNRA Expedition:
XX (2004-2005)
Chief Scientist:
M Ravaioli (CNR Bologna)
Research Project:
2004/4.10 a - Bay Project (Westren Ross Sea)
Sedimentology Principal Investigator:
E. Colizza (Univ. Trieste)
Label:
BAY05-18c
Sampling Method:
Gravity Core
Collected Area:
Cape Hallett (Ross Sea)
Latitude:
-72.298
Longitude:
170.088
Collected date:
23/01/2005
Water depth (m):
464
Core length (cm):
415
Number of Sections:
5
Publications:
Contacts:
museoantartide@units.it
Preliminary Description:
Sediment less dense between 0 and 8 cm. Contact blended with the underlying sediment inhomogeneous, alternating with levels with scattered clasts and levels with rare/absent ones. Net lower contact. Between 284 and 351 cm: sediment with centimeter wavy laminae parallel. Contact net with underlying sediment denser containing many clasts. Contact net to 416 cm. The core’s bottom is characterized by homogeneous sediment, without clasts.