Weddell sea palaeoceanography: Preliminary results of ODP Leg 113

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Barker, Peter F, Kennett, James P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1988
• Subjects: Antarctic; Weddell Sea; East Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; New Zealand; Weddell; Maud Rise; Weddell Basin; Weddell Abyssal Plain; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521474/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(88)90123-X

ODP Leg 113 drilled 22 holes at 9 sites in the Weddell Sea, to investigate the Cenozoic development of the modern cold, circum-Antarctic water mass structure and the continental glaciation. The sites sampled 4 contrasting environments: open-ocean pelagic sedimentation on Maud Rise (Sites 689 and 690...