First marine cryptotephra in Antarctica found in sediments of the western Ross Sea correlates with englacial tephras and climate records

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Di Roberto, Alessio, Colizza, Ester, Del Carlo, Paola, Petrelli, Maurizio, Finocchiaro, Furio, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
• Subjects: Article; Cape Hallett; Hallett; Mount Rittmann; Rittmann; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650406/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31337844; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47188-3

We report the discovery of an important new cryptotephra within marine sediments close to Cape Hallett (northern Victoria Land), in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica. The cryptotephra is fully characterized for its texture, mineralogy and major- and trace-element data obtained on single glass shards....