Janecek, Thomas R. (2003): Late Pleistocene biogenic opal data for Leg 177 sites 1093 and 1094. Texas A&M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, In: Gersonde, Rainer, Hodell, David A., Blum, Peter, Andersson, Carin, Austin, William E. N., Billups, Katharina, Channell, James E. T., Charles, Christopher D., Diekmann, Bernhard, Filippelli, Gabriel M., Flores, Jose-Abel, Hewitt, Antony T., Howard, William R., Ikehara, Minoru, Janecek, Thomas R., Kanfoush, Sharon L., Kemp, Alan E. S., King, Stagg L., Kleiven, Helga Flesche, Kuhn, Gerhard, Marino, Maria, Ninnemann, Ulysses S., O'Connell, Suzanne, Ortiz, Joseph D., Stoner, Joseph S., Sugiyama, Kazuhiro, Warnke, Detlef A., Zielinski, Ulrich, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, scientific results; Southern Ocean paleoceanography; covering Leg 177 of the cruises of the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution; Cape Town, South Africa, to Punta Arenas, Chile; sites 1088-1094; 9 December 1997-5 February 1998, 177, georefid:2003-053330

Abstract:
Sediments in the southeast Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean were cored during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 177 to study the paleoceanographic history of the Antarctic region on short (millennial) to long (Cenozoic) timescales. Seven sites were drilled along a north-south transect across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) from 41 degrees to 53 degrees S. The general goals of Leg 177 were twofold: (1) to document the biostratigraphic, biogeographic, and paleoceanographic history of the Paleogene and early Neogene, a period marked by the establishment of the Antarctic cryosphere and the ACC, and (2) to target expanded sections of late Neogene sediments, which can be used to resolve the timing of Southern Hemisphere climatic events on orbital and suborbital time scales. Closely spaced measurements of sedimentary physical properties were obtained from all cores recovered during Leg 177 using the ODP whole-round multisensor track. In addition, high-resolution diffuse color reflectance and resistivity measurements were collected on the Oregon State University Split Core Analysis Track. These whole-core and split-core measurements provide high-resolution proxy data sets for the estimation of biogenic and terrigenous mineralogy and mass flux. To assist investigators in calibrating these proxy data sets from sites located within the circum-Antarctic opal belt, samples from Sites 1093 (50 degrees S) and 1094 (53 degrees S) were analyzed for biogenic opal content.
Coverage:
West: 5.0749 East: 5.5156 North: -49.5835 South: -53.1049
Relations:
Expedition: 177
Site: 177-1093
Site: 177-1094
Supplemental Information:
Data report; available only on CD-ROM in PDF format and on the Web in PDF or HTML
Data access:
Provider: SEDIS Publication Catalogue
Data set link: http://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=10.2973/odp.proc.sr.177.108.2001 (c.f. for more detailed metadata)
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