BANGSS: Antarctic Marine Geology and Seismic Survey Post-Cruise Report, 1994/95

AGSO Cruise 149 and ANARE Voyage 6 (BANGSS) conducted a marine geoscience program in Prydz Bay, the Mac.Robertson Shelf, and the Kerguelen Plateau during the 1994/95 season. The post-cruise report summarizes preliminary results aimed at understanding modern sedimentary processes, Plio-Pleistocene environmental history, and Quaternary climate change in the Southern Ocean. The data is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling ice sheet fluctuations based on sediment records from the Lambert Glacier outlet in Prydz Bay.
• Analyzing post-glacial environmental change based on thick Holocene sediments from deep basins on the Mac.Robertson Shelf.
• Reconstructing water mass reorganization history in the Southern Ocean based on sedimentary sequences from the Kerguelen Plateau.
• Studying tectonic and stratigraphic development of the Antarctic margin based on seismic lines and sampling mentioned in the report.

Strengths

• Focuses on three distinct Antarctic features: Prydz Bay, Mac.Robertson Shelf, and Kerguelen Plateau.
• Explicitly targets environmental records for three key time intervals: 0-10k, 0-160k, and 0-5 million years.
• Data is part of a formal research program (AGSO/Antarctic CRC/ANARE) with a defined acronym (BANGSS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data format is PDF/HTML, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Marine geoscience survey (seismic lines and sampling) conducted during AGSO Cruise 149 / ANARE Voyage 6.

Time Range

1994/95 cruise season; report focuses on records up to 5 million years before present.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 21:49:12.326662; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Prydz Bay, Mac.Robertson Shelf (Antarctica), and Kerguelen Plateau (Southern Ocean).