Prydz Bay and Mac.Robertson Shelf in Antarctica are the focus of this marine geoscience dataset. It contains sediment cores and grab samples collected during Voyage 7 of the 1992/93 Antarctic Division shipping season aboard the R.V. Aurora Australis. The data was gathered by the Co-operative Research Centre for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environments to study Quaternary environmental change and sedimentation processes.
Use Cases
- Calibrating climatic models based on records contained in sediment cores.
- Studying past environmental change and Quaternary glaciation history based on sediment core samples.
- Elucidating sedimentation processes on the Antarctic shelf and slope based on sea bed sampling.
- Inferring the extent of post-glaciation iceberg gouging based on bathymetry and 3.5kHz echo sounder data.
- Conducting palaeotemperature studies based on a core from BANZARE Bank.
Strengths
- Data collection targeted specific, scientifically important sites: Prydz Bay and Mac.Robertson Shelf.
- Sampling program included fifteen gravity cores and grab samples.
- Dataset includes bathymetry and 3.5kHz echo sounder data for interpreting seabed features.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific Antarctic cruise locations.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Sea bed sampling program (gravity cores and grab samples) conducted during a research voyage.
- Time Range
- January-March 1993
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 13:44:40.387900; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Prydz Bay, Mac.Robertson Shelf, Antarctica, and BANZARE Bank.