Investigation of Pliocene foraminifera on sediment core CRP-1 from the Ross Sea, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Webb, Peter-Noel, Strong, C Percy
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1998
• Subjects: 16 km ENE Cape Roberts; Cape Roberts Project; Core wireline system; CRP; CRP-1; CWS; off Cape Roberts; Ross Sea; Antarctica; Sampling/drilling ice; Cape Roberts; Mackay; Roberts Cape; Roberts Ridge; Sirius; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.510746; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.510746

Mixed assemblages of Pliocene and Quaternary foraminifera occur within the Quaternary succession of the CRP-1 drillhole. Pliocene foraminifera are not present in the lowermost Unit 4.1. are rare in Unit 3.1 and 2.3, are relatively common in Units 2.2 and 2.1, and are absent in Unit 1.1. Fifteen and...