Organic and inorganic proxies, and concentration of diatoms from surface sediment PS97/ Sterols preserved in surface sediments PS97/ Diatoms of surface sediments PS97

• Main Authors: Cárdenas, Paola, Lange, Carina B, Vernet, Maria, Esper, Oliver, Srain, Benjamin, Vorrath, Maria-Elena, Ehrhardt, Sophie, Müller, Juliane, Kuhn, Gerhard, Arz, Helge Wolfgang, Lembke-Jene, Lester, Lamy, Frank
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: diatoms; Drake Passage; organic carbon; Photosynthetic pigments; sterols; surface sediments; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Bransfield Strait; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.927026; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.927026

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the world's largest current system connecting all major ocean basins of the global ocean. Its flow, driven by strong westerly winds, is constricted to its narrowest extent in the Drake Passage, located between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Due t...