Image: Sediment-images hg

Description: Images of sediment types from the Southern Ocean (A) sediment photo from the Antarctic continental margin with layers of gravel and sand documenting advances of the ice sheet to the outer shelf, i.e. a proximal turbidite; (B) shelf sediments including a high amount of gravel; (C) sediment strongly bioturbated by benthic organisms living in and from the sediment; (D) laminated sediment deposited under a closed ice coverage (width of each image is 10 cm). B, C and D are x-ray images of 1 cm thick sediment slices.
Title: Sediment-images hg
Credit: Grobe, H., Diekmann, B., Hillenbrand, C.-D.(2009). The memory of the Polar Oceans, In: Hempel, G. (ed) Biology of Polar Oceans, hdl:10013/epic.33599.d001, pdf 0.4 MB.
Author: Hannes Grobe/AWI
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