Provenance of Pleistocene sediments in the ANDRILL AND-1B drillcore: Clay and heavy mineral data

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 94-102

  Giorgetti, Giovanna ^a   Talarico, Franco ^a   Sandroni, Sonia ^a   Zeoli, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ANDRILL; Antarctica; clay minerals; heavy minerals; provenance; Ross Sea

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERAL; CRYOSPHERE; DATA SET; DATABASE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DIAMICTITE; DRILLING; HEAVY MINERAL; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOURCE ROCK; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 71849115345     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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