Descriptions of 104 gravity and piston sediment cores from POLARSTERN expedition ARK-VIII/3 to the Arctic Ocean ...

• Main Authors: Fütterer, Dieter K, Shipboard Scientific Party
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: Giant box corer; Gravity corer Kiel type; Giant piston corer; MultiCorer; Kasten corer; ARK-VIII/3; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Arctic Ocean; Nansen Basin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.711051; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.711051

Sediment descriptions and lithostratigraphy (chapter 6.4)NANSEN BASINThe upperrnost 20-50 cm of sedirnents in the Nansen Basin norrnally cornprise soft dark brown, brown-grayish and brown clay. Except for the toprnost clay, the four piston cores retrieved, contained quite different lithologies: a rn...