DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3705.1822. Ice-Rafted Detritus as a Climatic Indicator in Antarctic Deep-Sea Cores

Ice-Rafted Detritus as a Climatic Indicator in Antarctic Deep-Sea Cores

10.1126/science.150.3705.1822

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Abstract

Ice-rafted detritus is readily identified in sediment cores raised from the deep ocean floor around Antarctica. A few cores have reached a depth below which no ice-rafted material is found. This depth is interpreted as indicating the establishment of earliest Pleistocene glaciation in the Southern Hemisphere. It is just below a depth where there is a change in assemblages of Radiolaria which Hays associates with the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary. The presence of ice-rafted material throughout the upper zone in cores taken south of the Polar Front indicates continuity of glaciation in Antarctica. Further north, near 45°S in the Argentine Basin, zonation of the ice-rafted detritus can be used to delineate glacial stages of the Pleistocene.

Bibliography

Conolly, J. R., & Ewing, M. (1965). Ice-Rafted Detritus as a Climatic Indicator in Antarctic Deep-Sea Cores. Science, 150(3705), 1822â1824.

Authors 2

John R. Conolly (first)
Maurice Ewing (additional)

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Issued	59 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 31, 1965)
Published	59 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 31, 1965)
Published Print	59 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 31, 1965)

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BibTeX

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