BANGSS: Antarctic Marine Geology and Seismic Survey, 1994/95

AGSO Cruise 149, known as BANGSS, collected marine geoscience data from Prydz Bay, the Mac.Robertson Shelf, and the Kerguelen Plateau in 1994/95. The preliminary results focus on modern sedimentary processes and the region's environmental history over the last 5 million years. This record is a post-cruise report published by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Reconstructing ice sheet fluctuations based on sediment records from Prydz Bay.
• Studying post-glacial environmental change using Holocene sediments from the Mac.Robertson Shelf.
• Analyzing water mass reorganization in the Southern Ocean based on sedimentary sequences from the Kerguelen Plateau.
• Investigating tectonic and stratigraphic development of the Antarctic margin using seismic lines.

Strengths

• Data targets three distinct geological features for focused study: trough-mouth fans, shelf-basin sediment traps, and plateau sediments.
• Research goals are explicitly linked to understanding climate change over three specific time intervals: 0-10k, 0-160k, and 0-5 million years.
• Report is associated with a specific, documented research cruise (AGSO survey 149, ANARE Voyage 6).

Limitations

• Data is presented as a summary report (PDF/HTML); the underlying raw datasets are not directly described or available.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Marine geoscience survey conducted during AGSO Cruise 149 / ANARE Voyage 6.

Time Range

1994/95

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 03:56:52.068957; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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