Sedimentology on cores off the South Orkney Plateau ...

• Main Author: Grünig, Sigrun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1991
• Subjects: Piston corer Meischner small; Giant box corer; Gravity corer Kiel type; ANT-II/3; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; South Orkney Plateau; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarktis*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.860528; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.860528

Grab samples and cores for sedimentological studies were retrieved along a N-S transect of the South Orkney Plateau margin. On the basis of morphology, the margin has been subdivided into shelf, upper continental slope, and a lower slope region cut by basins and ridges.Grain size, Sand component, an...