Mineralogical and grain size analysis of ODP Hole 119-745B from the Southern Ocean

• Main Authors: Ehrmann, Werner, Grobe, Hannes
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1991
• Subjects: 119-745B; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Indian Ocean; Joides Resolution; Leg119; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Antarc*; Antarctic; Ice Shelves; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.587844; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.587844

The upper Miocene to Pleistocene sediments recovered at ODP Sites 745 and 746 in the Australian-Antarctic Basin are characterized by cyclic facies changes. Sedimentological investigations of a detailed Quaternary section reveal that facies A is dominated by a high content of siliceous microfossils,...