MNA - Sede di Trieste

PNRA Expedition: 
VI (1990-1991)
Chief Scientist: 
F. Giorgetti (Univ. Trieste)
Research Project: 
Sedimentology and seabed sampling
Sedimentology Principal Investigator: 
M. Ravaioli (CNR Bologna)
Label: 
ANTA91-14C
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
Joides Basin (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-73.874
Longitude: 
175.414
Collected date: 
24/12/1990
Water depth (m): 
600
Core length (cm): 
615
Number of Sections: 
6
Publications: 
  • Brambati A., 2000: Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental Records in sediments from the Southern Ocean (Strait of Magellan and Ross Sea). Terra Antarctica Reports, 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.
  • Frignani M., Giglio F., Langone L., Ravaioli M., Mangini A., 1998: Late pleistocene-holocene sedimentary fluxes of organic carbon and biogenic silica in the nortwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 27: 697-703.
  • 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 x-ray is characterized by levels without sediment. The sediment is less dense with a few clasts; some of them exceed the centimeter in length. The number of clasts increases below the 300 cm.