Recent diatom and foraminiferal assemblages in surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica.

Surficial bottom sediments collected from Prydz Bay, Antarctica contain three sedimentary facies, four foraminiferal faunas, and two diatom floras. A sandy diamict (Facies Ds) is deposited by iceberg rafting and reworked by currents of the Prydz Bay Cyclonic Gyre. A massive mud (Facies Mm) represents the sediments being supplied to the Bay and could provide a high resolution record of the Quaternary in Antarctica. A carbonate sand (Facies Cs) is a modern cold water carbonate deposited under special conditions on the outer continental shelf.


The presence of planktonic flora and fauna, and variations in sedimentological parameters are consistent with the physical oceanographic evidence for a large cyclonic gyre operating in the Bay.


The fields in this dataset are:

Sight Device Comments

Depth (m)

Sample

Foram

Diatom

Percentages of Individual species

Number of individuals counted.

Plankton

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Modification of the type of dietary fat at an Antarctic station: impact on cardiovascular risk factors
Date (Publication)
2003-03-24
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/577312B0D193B

Originator

Franklin, D.C.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

FRANKLIN, D. C.
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00090

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans

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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1991-01-01 1991-12-31
Title
Recent diatom and foraminiferal assemblages in surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica.
Date (Publication)
1993
Citation identifier
90

Author

Franklin, D.C.
Name
ANARE Research Notes
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > SEDIMENTS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS > AMOEBOIDS > FORAMINIFERS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS > DIATOMS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MICROALGAE > DIATOMS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON
Keywords
  • ANTARCTICA
  • BIOGENIC CONTENT
  • CYCLONIC GYRE
  • DEPTH
  • DIATOMS
  • FAUNA
  • FORAMINIFERAL
  • PLANKTON
  • PRYDZ BAY
  • SEDIMENTARY FACIES
  • SUFICIAL SEDIMENTS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD SURVEYS
  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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This metadata record is publicly available.

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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00090 when using these data.
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English
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AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

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free
Planned available datetime
2003-03-24T00:00:00
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Maintenance note
2003-03-24 - record created by Sarah Park. 2009-06-09 - record updated by Bruno Danis to add SCAR-MarBIN nodes. 2010-06-04 - record updated by Dave Connell to include PIC information. 2014-09-09 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2016-06-30 - record updated by Dave Connell to add a dataset DOI.

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Metadata identifier
string/AADC-00090

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

PARK, SARAH JANINE
203 Channel Highway
Australian Antarctic Division
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
d182b320-9be5-47c0-952d-ff5fca6506be

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T03:46:33

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00090

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Date info (Creation)
2003-03-24T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-04-26

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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