Late Quaternary clay mineralogy of ODP Site 177-1089 and core PS2821-1 in the Southern Cape Basin

• Main Authors: Kuhn, Gerhard, Diekmann, Bernhard
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2002
• Subjects: 177-1089A; 177-1089B; 177-1089C; 177-1089D; ANT-XIV/3; AWI_Paleo; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; KL; Leg177; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Piston corer (BGR type); Polarstern; PS2821-1; PS43; PS43/057; South Atlantic Ocean; Weddell Sea; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Indian; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.706199; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.706199

During Leg 177 of the Ocean Drilling Program, an expanded sequence of Pliocene to Holocene calcareous muds was recovered at Site 1089 on a drift deposit in the southern Cape Basin (SE South Atlantic). The reconstruction of detrital sources and modes of sediment transport gives insight into the opera...