Chemostratigraphy of the early Pliocene diatomite interval from MIS AND-1B core (Antarctica): Palaeoenvironment implications

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Scopelliti, Giovanna, Bellanca, Adriana, Monien, Donata, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32482/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.01.001; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41093

The AND-1B drill core (1285 m-long) was recovered, inside the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) Program, during the austral summer of 2006/07 from beneath the floating McMurdo Ice Shelf. Drilling recovered a stratigraphic succession of alternating diamictites, diatomites and volcaniclastic sed...