Bottom currents, sedimentation and ice-sheet retreat facies successions on the MacRobertson shelf, East Antarctica

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

Measurements of water turbidity, currents, seafloor sediment samples and geophysical data document the sedimentary processes and the Late Quaternary sedimentary history of a continental shelf valley system on the East Antarctic continental margin.

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Title Bottom currents, sedimentation and ice-sheet retreat facies successions on the MacRobertson shelf, East Antarctica
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/499b18ee-f5f5-48d8-847d-d7a3fe01d8b3
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Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 22/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Bottom currents, sedimentation and ice-sheet retreat facies successions on the MacRobertson shelf, East Antarctica". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/bottom-currents-sedimentation-and-ice-sheet-retreat-facies-successions-on-the-macrobertson-shel