Environmental analysis on sediment core CRP-2 from the Ross Sea, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Powell, Ross, Krissek, Lawrence A, van der Meer, Jaap
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2000
• Subjects: 14.2 km at 096° true from Cape Roberts; Cape Roberts Project; Core wireline system; CRP; CRP-2; CRP-2A; CWS; off Cape Roberts; Ross Sea; Antarctica; Sampling/drilling from ice; Cape Roberts; McMurdo Sound; Roberts Cape; Roberts Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.510752; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.510752

Cape Roberts Project drill core 2/2A was obtained from Roberts Ridge, a sea-floor high located at 77° S, 16 km offshore from Cape Roberts in western McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The recovered core is about 624 m long and includes strata dated as being Quaternary, Pliocene, Miocene and Oligocene in age...