AGSO Cruise 149 Report: Antarctic Sediment Sampling for Paleoclimate Study, 1995

A pre-cruise report outlines the scientific aims and methods for AGSO Cruise 149 aboard the R.V. Aurora Australis in February-April 1995. The program targeted Prydz Bay, the MacRobertson Shelf, and the Kerguelen Plateau to collect sediment samples for paleoclimate analysis. The research aimed to understand modern sedimentary processes and reconstruct Antarctic and Southern Ocean environmental history over intervals from 0-10,000 to 0-5,000,000 years.

Use Cases

• Modeling past Antarctic ice sheet fluctuations based on sediment records from Prydz Bay mentioned in the description
• Reconstructing Southern Ocean water mass and polar front history based on sediment sequences from the Kerguelen Plateau
• Analyzing Plio-Pleistocene environmental changes based on sediment core samples described for the region

Strengths

• Report details a targeted scientific cruise with specific geographical focuses on three Antarctic regions
• Research aims are explicitly defined for three distinct paleoclimate time intervals (0-10k, 0-160k, 0-5M 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

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Marine geoscience cruise involving sediment sampling and coring.

Time Range

Cruise conducted February-April 1995; research covers time intervals from 0 to 5,000,000 years before present.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 12:52:02.534072; freshness should be verified

Geography

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