AGSO Cruise 149 Report on Antarctic Sediments and Climate History

A pre-cruise report outlines the scientific aims and methods for the AGSO/Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre/ANARE marine geoscience program conducted in February-April 1995. The program targeted Prydz Bay, the MacRobertson Shelf, and the Kerguelen Plateau to study modern sedimentary processes and Plio-Pleistocene environmental history. The research aimed to provide statements of Antarctic and Southern Ocean palaeoenvironments over intervals from 0-10,000 years to 0-5,000,000 years.

Use Cases

• Modeling past Antarctic ice sheet fluctuations based on sediment records from Prydz Bay.
• Studying Southern Ocean water mass reorganization during the Quaternary based on samples from the Kerguelen Plateau.
• Analyzing Plio-Pleistocene environmental history based on sedimentary sequences from the MacRobertson Shelf.
• Understanding modern sedimentary processes on the Antarctic margin based on the cruise's planned activities.

Strengths

• Report details a specific cruise (AGSO Cruise 149) with a defined timeframe (February-April 1995).
• Objectives are clearly stated for three distinct geographical features: trough-mouth fan deposits, sediment traps, and depositional basins.
• Research goals are linked to specific time intervals for palaeoenvironmental study: 0-10,000 years, 0-160,000 years, and 0-5,000,000 years.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Marine geoscience cruise program.

Time Range

February-April 1995

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 01:58:37.070465; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Prydz Bay, MacRobertson Shelf, and Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean/Antarctic region.