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

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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.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2022.040
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Metadata Access http://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:7680
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Creator Olivetti, Valerio ORCID logo; Balestrieri, Maria Laura ORCID logo; Chew, David ORCID logo; Zurli, Luca ORCID logo; Zattin, Massimiliano ORCID logo; Pace, Donato; Drakou, Foteini ORCID logo; Cornamusini, Gianluca; Perotti, Matteo ORCID logo
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Contributor Olivetti, Valerio; Balestrieri, Maria Laura; Perotti, Matteo
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Grant number PNRA18_00233); Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under grant number 13/RC/2092_P2 (iCRAG, the SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences); Geosciences Department funding (BIRD_182501)
Rights CC BY 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact Olivetti, Valerio (Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy); Balestrieri, Maria Laura (CNR, Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources)
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Geospheric Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-157.500W, -81.201S, 174.375E, -75.672N); Ross Sea, Antarctica