MNA - Sede di Trieste

BAY05-45c

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: 
BAY05-45c
Sampling Method: 
Gravity Core
Collected Area: 
Wood Bay (Ross Sea)
Latitude: 
-74.162
Longitude: 
165.962
Collected date: 
10/02/2005
Water depth (m): 
1058
Number of Sections: 
5
Publications: 
  • Colizza E., Corradi N., Finocchiaro F., Giordano F., Langone L., Melis R., Morelli D., 2009. Sedimentary sequences from embayments along the Victoria Land (Ross Sea, Antarctica) as potential archives recording Holocene climate fluctuations. GEOITALIA-FIST Rimini, 9-11 september 2009, p. 306-306, Poster.
  • Colizza E., Finocchiaro F., Giglio F., Kuhn G., Langone L., Presti M., 2010. Holocene laminated biogenic mud in Wood Bay (western Ross Sea, Antarctica): geochemical data and preliminary paleoclimatic interpretation. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, may 2010. Extended Abstract in Geophysical Research Abstracts,Vol. 12, EGU2010-8277, Poster.
  • Colizza E., Langone L, Bussi M., Landucci C., Morelli D., Ridente D., Piva A., Corradi N., Giglio F., Finocchiaro F., 2005: Bay project: paleoenvironmental evidence of Holocene climate fluctuations in bay sediments of the Western Ross Sea. Geoitalia 2005, Spoleto 21-23 september 2005, Poster.
  • Colizza E., Langone L., Bussi M., Landucci C., Morelli D., Ridente D., Piva A., Corradi N., Giglio F., Finocchiaro F., 2005: Il progetto BAIE: evidenze paleoambientali di fluttuazioni climatiche oloceniche registrate nei sedimenti di alcune baie del Mare di Ross occidentale. CONGA, 19-21 october 2005, Milano, Abstract.
    • Contacts: 
    museoantartide@units.it
    Section Images: 
    Preliminary Description: 

    Homogeneous and dense sediment up to 28 cm. From 28 cm to the bottom there are parallel plates laminae, with millimetric to centimetric thickness. Some of the laminae are less dense and thicker than a centimeter.