In situ foraminifera in grounding zone diamict: A working hypothesis

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Bart, Philip J., Coquereau, Laura, Warny, Sophie, Majewski, Wojciech
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2016
• Subjects: continental shelf; grounding zone wedge; ice sheet; Last Glacial Maximum; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Glomar Challenger Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geo_pubs/1046; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102016000055

© 2016 Antarctic Science Ltd. The ice-proximal diamict sediment deposited on the foreset of a grounding zone wedge in Glomar Challenger Basin on the eastern Ross Sea continental shelf yielded a low abundance assemblage of foraminifera at two piston core sites. We found 302 small well-preserved speci...