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Detrital age spectra and petrological analysis of gravel-size clasts of the Oligocene-early Miocene glaciomarine sediments of the DSDP drilling Site 270, Central Ross Sea, Antarctica

Olivetti, Valerio | Balestrieri, Maria Laura | Chew, David | Zurli, Luca | Zattin, Massimiliano | Pace, Donato | Drakou, Foteini | Cornamusini, Gianluca | Perotti, Matteo

GFZ Data Services

(2023)

This data-set contains provenance detrital data from the glacimarine sequence of Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 270. The 270 site was cored on a flank of the Central High in the central Ross Sea and recovered a thick Oligocene to lower Miocene glacimarine sequence, overlain by ~20 m of Pliocene to Recent strata. This site provides important temporal constraints on regional stratigraphy and insights into late Oligocene to early Miocene ice sheet dynamics. We analyzed eight detrital samples of glaciomarine sediments distributed along the core and two from the basement rocks recovered during coring, by using an integrated single-grain provenance approach. This multi-proxy provenance study employs conventional U-Pb detrital zircon dating integrated with apatite U-Pb and fission-track dating and trace element analysis of detrital apatite and clast petrology. The data-set suggests a general evolution from local erosion due to small ice caps to far-travelled glacial detritus responding to the continuous sea floor subsidence. The detrital age spectra of a late Oligocene diamicitite is consistent with far travelled grains from southern West Antarctica (WA), suggesting an expansion of the WA ice sheet that should be the oldest and first evidence of ice sheet growth on the WA.

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
Provenance analysis
Apatite and zircon UPb dating
Antarctica
Ice Sheet evolution
rock
sedimentary material
EARTH SCIENCE
ISOTOPIC AGE
In SituLaboratory Instruments
ModelsAnalyses
Neogene

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
Neogene

MSL enriched keywords
Phanerozoic
Cenozoic
Neogene
unconsolidated sediment
clastic sediment
gravel
Miocene
Paleogene
Oligocene
minerals
oxide mineral
ice
carbonate minerals
apatite
silicate minerals
nesosilicates
zircon
Pliocene
antropogenic setting
surface subsidence
analysis
geochronology
uranium dating
uranium-lead dating
measured property
age of sample
uranium age
uranium-lead age
surface subsidence

MSL enriched sub domains i

geochemistry


Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.2022.040


Authors

Olivetti, Valerio

0000-0001-8173-3860

Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy;

Balestrieri, Maria Laura

0000-0002-8652-0845

CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources;

Chew, David

0000-0002-6940-1035

Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland;

Zurli, Luca

0000-0002-7669-7305

Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Siena;

Zattin, Massimiliano

0000-0002-2265-3921

Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy;

Pace, Donato

Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Siena;

Drakou, Foteini

0000-0001-6618-4541

Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland;

Cornamusini, Gianluca

Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Siena;

Perotti, Matteo

0000-0003-4713-7867

Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Siena;


Contributers

Olivetti, Valerio

ContactPerson

0000-0001-8173-3860

Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy;

Olivetti, Valerio

DataCollector

0000-0001-8173-3860

Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy;

Balestrieri, Maria Laura

ContactPerson

0000-0002-8652-0845

CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources;

Balestrieri, Maria Laura

DataCollector

0000-0002-8652-0845

CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources;

Perotti, Matteo

ProjectLeader

0000-0003-4713-7867

Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Siena;

Balestrieri, Maria Laura

ContactPerson

CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources;


References

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Contact

Balestrieri, Maria Laura

CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources;

Balestrieri, Maria Laura

CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources;

Balestrieri, Maria Laura

CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources;


Citiation

Olivetti, V., Balestrieri, M. L., Chew, D., Zurli, L., Zattin, M., Pace, D., Drakou, F., Cornamusini, G., & Perotti, M. (2023). Detrital age spectra and petrological analysis of gravel-size clasts of the Oligocene-early Miocene glaciomarine sediments of the DSDP drilling Site 270, Central Ross Sea, Antarctica [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2022.040


Geo location(s)

Ross Sea, Antarctica