Grain size composition of sediment cores from the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Michels, Klaus, Kuhn, Gerhard, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Diekmann, Bernhard, Fütterer, Dieter K, Grobe, Hannes, Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2002
• Subjects: ANT-IV/3; ANT-VI/3; ANT-VIII/5; AWI_Paleo; Camp Norway; gcmd1; Giant box corer; GKG; Gravity corer (Kiel type); Halley Bay; KL; Lyddan Island; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Piston corer (BGR type); Polarstern; PS08; PS08/333; PS12; PS12/319; PS12/340; PS12/458; PS1367-2; PS1599-1; PS1599-3; PS16; PS16/409; PS16/410; PS16/419; PS1607-3; PS1635-1; PS1789-1; PS1790-1; PS1794-2; SL; Weddell Sea; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Norway; Weddell; Coats Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.472241; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.472241

Sedimentary processes in the southeastern Weddell Sea are influenced by glacial-interglacial ice-shelf dynamics and the cyclonic circulation of the Weddell Gyre, which affects all water masses down to the sea floor. Significantly increased sedimentation rates occur during glacial stages, when ice sh...