Investigation of the grain size, shape, and texture of the Perseverance Drift, Antarctic Peninsula: Sediment transport history and Holocene variability

• Main Author: Staszyc, Alicia Barbara 1990-
• Other Authors: Wellner, Julia S., Saylor, Joel E., Strom, Kyle B.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic Peninsula; Sediment transport; Drift deposit; Grain size; Grain shape; Grain texture; Holocene; Sedimentology; Facies; Silica precipitation; Antarctic; Perseverance; Antarc*; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10657/1669

The Perseverance Drift, on the northern Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf, records changes in ocean and ice conditions throughout the Holocene. This study uses the sedimentary archive contained in a 25.81m jumbo piston core taken from a ~100m thick sedimentary drift deposit. The drift deposit is...