Box CORER stations in the Ionian Sea (URANIA 15/97) during SINAPSI Project
Data set information
| Query EDMED |
| General | |
| Data holding centre | University of Milano, Bicocca, Dept.of Geological Sciences and Geotechnologies |
| Country | Italy  |
| Time period | 1997, November, 22 to 1997, December, 9 |
| Ongoing | No |
| Geographical area | Ionian Sea |
| Observations | |
| Parameters | Sediment microfossil morphology parameters; Sediment age |
| Instruments | Unconsolidated sediment corers |
| Description | |
| Summary | The box corer acquisitions were finalized to characterization of sapropel, with special care to sapropel S-1. In formulating possible formation models for the sapropels in the Eastern Mediterranean, the following parameters are essential: geographical extension and continuity of the level in a basin; minimum and maximum depth of foundings in the sediment; apparent variations in sapropel thickness, related to water depth and geographical location. The sapropel evidences were searched moving from the western limit of the Eagean Sea into the Ionian Sea, toward SW (Syrte Basin and Sicily Channel) and W (Sicily Strait). In relatively shallow waters (1000 m) we adopted a gravity corer instead of the box corer. |
| Originators | University of Milano, Bicocca, Dept.of Geological Sciences and Geotechnologies |
| Data web site | http://sinapsi.cineca.it |
| Availability | |
| Organisation | University of Milano, Bicocca, Dept.of Geological Sciences and Geotechnologies |
| Availability | By negotiation |
| Contact | Corselli C. (President) |
| Address | University of Milano, Bicocca, Dept.of Geological Sciences and Geotechnologies |
| Administration | |
| Collating centre | National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Division of Oceanography |
| Local identifier | OGS-EDMED-247 |
| Global identifier | 3724 |
| Last revised | 2001-05-15 |
