Late Quaternary sedimentation in the Northern Western Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica: seismostratigraphic features and sedimentary properties of calibrated cores

• Main Authors: CORRADI, NICOLA, FIERRO, GIULIANO, IVALDI, ROBERTA, PITTA', ANTONELLA, Finocchiaro, F.
• Other Authors: Futterer D. K., Corradi, Nicola, Fierro, Giuliano, Ivaldi, Roberta, Pitta', Antonella
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung 2003
• Subjects: Late Quaternary; sediments; seismostratigraphy; Western Basin; Ross Sea; Antarctica; Drygalski; Drygalski Basin; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/846257

The northern Western Basin is a sector of the continental shelf of the Western Ross Sea (Fig. 1) that is considered to be the natural northward extension of the Drygalski Basin by many authors. The literature provides a general model of the evolution of the basin and the recent papers of Anderson (1...