Collection Details
Diatom and foraminiferal samples from surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica.View list of biodiversity data collections |
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Collection Details
- Custodian
- Pat Quilty, Phil O'Brien, Peter Harris
- Collection Acronym
- FORAMS
- Description
- Surficial bottom sediments have been collected from Prydz Bay, Antarctica from 5 voyages from 1981 to 1995. Devices used include gravity core, grabs, pipe dredge. Most collections are from 200 to 800 metres depth with the deepest at 3200 metres.
- Domain
- Marine
- Taxa Groups
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Diatoms,
List 123 taxa from this collection - Collection Status
- Data collection complete
- DiGIR Details
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Resource Code: - forams Resource Name: - Diatom and foraminiferal samples from surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica. Keywords: - Diatom , foraminiferal, sediments, Prydz Bay, grabs, gravity cores, voyages (GEOSCI, AAMBER2, BANGSS, KROCK, BRAD) Basis of Record: - Specimen For list of all collections published via DiGIR, see AADC DiGIR collections and the DiGIR harvesting point if you wish to harvest records
- Linked to the following Bioregions
Data Details
- Data links
- Search the 897 observations belonging to this collection.
- Map
- No map exists.
- Spatial Coverage
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55° 45' 11.9" S to 69° 07' 59.9" S | -55.7533° to -69.1333° 61° 10' 00.1" E to 110° 10' 23.9" E | 61.1667° to 110.1733° - Date Range of Collection
- 20-Jan-1991 to 11-Mar-1997
- Data collected from the following voyage(s)
Voyage Observation count Search 1981/82 V4 GEOSCI (details) 43 search 
1990/91 V6 AAMBER2 (details) 267 search 1992/93 V7 KROCK (details) 14 search 1994/95 V6 BANGSS (details) 271 search 1996/97 V5 BRAD (details) 299 search - Metadata
- AADC-00090 - Recent diatom and foraminiferal assemblages in surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica.