Bottom-current control on sedimentation in the western Bellingshausen Sea, West Antarctica

• Published in: Geo-Marine Letters
• Main Authors: Scheuer, C., Gohl, Karsten, Udintsev, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Bellingshausen Sea; Peter I Island; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/13156/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/13156/1/Sch2006b.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-006-0019-1; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23546; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23546.d001

A set of single channel and multi channel seismic reflection profiles provide insights in the young Cenozoic sedimentation history on the continental rise of the western Bellingshausen Sea west and north of Peter I Island. This area was mainly influenced by the glacial controlled sediment supply fro...