Preliminary results and documentation of sediment cores CRP2 and CRP-2A from the Ross Sea off Cape Roberts, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Woolfe, Ken, Fielding, Christopher R, CRP Science Team
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2006
• 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; Roberts Cape; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.525770; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.525770

The site for CRP-2, 14 km east of Cape Roberts (77.006°S; 163.719°E), was selected to overlap the early Miocene strata cored in nearby CRP-1, and to sample deeper into the east-dipping strata near the western margin ofe he Victoria Land Basin to investigate Palaeogene climatic and tectonic history....