Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ...
AbstractMarine-geophysical evidence on sea-floor morphology and shallow acoustic stratigraphy are used to examine the substrate around the location at which Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank in 1915 and on the continental slope-shelf sedimentary system above this site in the western W...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.52734 2024-02-04T09:53:33+01:00 Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ... Dowdeswell, JA Batchelor, CL Dorschel, B Benham, TJ Christie, FDW Dowdeswell, EK Montelli, A Arndt, JE Gebhardt, C 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.52734 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/305656 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) open.access All rights reserved http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 acoustic stratigraphy continental shelf continental slope icebergs sea-floor landforms Article ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle article-journal 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.52734 2024-01-05T14:24:00Z AbstractMarine-geophysical evidence on sea-floor morphology and shallow acoustic stratigraphy are used to examine the substrate around the location at which Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank in 1915 and on the continental slope-shelf sedimentary system above this site in the western Weddell Sea. Few signs of turbidity-current and mass-wasting activity are found near or upslope of the wreck site, and any such activity was probably linked to full-glacial higher-energy conditions when ice last advanced across the continental shelf. The wreck is well below the maximum depth of iceberg keels and will not have been damaged by ice-keel ploughing. The wreck has probably been draped by only a few centimetres of fine-grained sediment since it sank in 1915. Severe modern sea-ice conditions hamper access to the wreck site. Accessing and investigating the wreck of Endurance in the Weddell Sea therefore represents a significant challenge. An ice-breaking research vessel is required, and even this would not ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Sea ice Weddell Sea DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Weddell Weddell Sea |
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acoustic stratigraphy continental shelf continental slope icebergs sea-floor landforms Dowdeswell, JA Batchelor, CL Dorschel, B Benham, TJ Christie, FDW Dowdeswell, EK Montelli, A Arndt, JE Gebhardt, C Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ... |
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AbstractMarine-geophysical evidence on sea-floor morphology and shallow acoustic stratigraphy are used to examine the substrate around the location at which Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank in 1915 and on the continental slope-shelf sedimentary system above this site in the western Weddell Sea. Few signs of turbidity-current and mass-wasting activity are found near or upslope of the wreck site, and any such activity was probably linked to full-glacial higher-energy conditions when ice last advanced across the continental shelf. The wreck is well below the maximum depth of iceberg keels and will not have been damaged by ice-keel ploughing. The wreck has probably been draped by only a few centimetres of fine-grained sediment since it sank in 1915. Severe modern sea-ice conditions hamper access to the wreck site. Accessing and investigating the wreck of Endurance in the Weddell Sea therefore represents a significant challenge. An ice-breaking research vessel is required, and even this would not ... |
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Dowdeswell, JA Batchelor, CL Dorschel, B Benham, TJ Christie, FDW Dowdeswell, EK Montelli, A Arndt, JE Gebhardt, C |
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Dowdeswell, JA Batchelor, CL Dorschel, B Benham, TJ Christie, FDW Dowdeswell, EK Montelli, A Arndt, JE Gebhardt, C |
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Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ... |
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Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ... |
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Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ... |
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Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ... |
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Sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western Weddell Sea, Antarctica, around the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ... |
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sea-floor and sea-ice conditions in the western weddell sea, antarctica, around the wreck of sir ernest shackleton's endurance ... |
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