Mineral assemblage of basement clasts of sediment core CRP-1

• Main Authors: Polozek, Kerstin, Ehrmann, Werner
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1998
• Subjects: 16 km ENE Cape Roberts; Amphibole; Cape Roberts Project; Core wireline system; CRP; CRP-1; CWS; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Heavy mineral analysis; Hornblende; brown; Minerals; stable; off Cape Roberts; Ross Sea; Antarctica; Opaque minerals; Pyroxene; Sampling/drilling ice; Titanaugite; Volcanic glass; Cape Roberts; Ross Ice Shelf; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.54629; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.54629

Heavy minerals from the lower Miocene and Quaternary sediments of the CRP-1 drillcore have been investigated in order to characterise the mineralogical composition of the sediments and to reconstruct their source areas. The sediments are dominated by very high concentrations of pyroxenes. Hornblende...