A study of Foraminifera in the core NP93-2 from the Prydz Bay, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Xia, Tu, Fan, Zheng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 1996
• Subjects: Prydz Bay; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Planktonic foraminifera; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2116/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2116/1/A602.004.pdf

Analyses of Foraminiferal fauna in the core NP93-2 of the Prydz Bay, Antarctica shows that the sediments are rich in Foraminifera in which planktonic Foraminifera make up 26.3% of the total number of Foraminifera and the arenaceous agglutinated benthic Foraminiferal assemblages are prevailing with 57.9% of total number of benthic Foraminiferal. The typical benthic Foraminiferal assemblage of Miliammina arenacea represents an assemblage of deep-water arenaceous agglutinated. Variations of content of warm and cold species of planktonic Foraminifera reflect the paleoclimatic changes and also reveal the paleo-environmental changes in this region and its relationship with the global changes. Other pale-oceanographic and paleo-climatological questions, such as water depth, carbonate dissolution are also discussed.