Surface sediment characteristics in the Drake Passage sector of the Southern Ocean

• Main Authors: Wu, Shuzhuang, Kuhn, Gerhard, Diekmann, Bernhard, Lembke-Jene, Lester, Tiedemann, Ralf, Zheng, Xufeng, Ehrhardt, Sophie, Arz, Helge Wolfgang, Lamy, Frank
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: AWI_Envi; AWI_Paleo; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems @ AWI; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Patagonia; Drake Passage; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.907141; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907141

Understanding present-day sediment provenance and transport processes is crucial for studies about the dynamics of ocean circulation, as well as for paleoclimate reconstructions in the Drake Passage (DP), a key area for Earth's global oceanic circulation and climate during past and future. Base...