This is a data report of bulk sediment composition, grain size, clay, and silt mineralogy of Pleistocene sediments from ODP Leg 177 Sites 1089 and 1090. Site 1089 was drilled in the southeast Atlantic Ocean, close to the northern flank of the Agulhas Ridge, and Site 1090 on the southern flank of the Agulhas Ridge. At Site 1089 changes in clay mineralogy and grain size are linked to deep- and medium-water circulation. At Site 1090 sediment parameters and their temporal variability document environmental responses of the southeastern South Atlantic to the mid-Pleistocene climate transition.
1Kuhn, G., and Diekmann, B., 2003. Data report: Bulk sediment composition, grain-size, clay, and silt mineralogy of Pleistocene sediments from ODP Leg 177 Sites 1089 and 1090. In Gersonde, R., Hodell, D.A., and Blum, P. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 177 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/177_SR/chap_13/chap_13.htm>. [Cited YYYY-MM-DD]
2Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, PO Box 120161, D-27515 Bremerhaven, Germany. Correspondence author: gkuhn@awi-bremerhaven.de
3Present address: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam, PO Box 600149, D-14401 Potsdam, Germany.
Initial receipt: 2 January 2002
Acceptance: 10 September 2002
Web publication:
21 January 2003
Ms 177SR-116