(Table 1) Grain size composition of surface sediments from the Barents Sea shelf

• Main Authors: Polyakova, Elena I, Pavlidis, Yury A, Levin, A A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1992
• Subjects: Archive of Ocean Data; ARCOD; Area/locality; Barents Sea; Depth; bottom/max; sediment/rock; top/min; Elevation of event; Event label; GC; Grab; Grain size; sieving; sieving/settling tube; Grain size analysis after Petelin (1967; Nauka; Moscow); Gravity corer; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Professor Shtokman; PS-1268; PS-1301; PS-1303; PS-16; Size fraction < 0.001 mm; clay; Size fraction > 1 mm; gravel; Size fraction 0.005-0.001 mm; Size fraction 0.010-0.005 mm; Size fraction 0.050-0.010 mm; Size fraction 0.100-0.050 mm; Size fraction 0.250-0.100 mm; Size fraction 0.500-0.250 mm; 1.0-2.0 phi; medium sand; Size fraction 1.000-0.500 mm; 0.0-1.0 phi; coarse sand
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.759112; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.759112

The surface layer of bottom sediments on the Barents Sea shelf has an irregular but generally very low abundance of diatoms. Tests of species belonging to present-day diatom flora were absent in nearly half of samples; their abundance was only a few shells per gram of dry sediment in 30% of the samp...