Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library, 1985 ...
Table 2. Sample chronology references—Continued Reference Number
Source
[1372]
"Antarctic Treaty Conference," Antarctic, 11(1 1), September 1961, p. 473-475.
[1377] [1380]
[1389]
Source
[1515]
"Deep Freeze 62 Begins," Antarctic Journal of the U.S., December 1961, 11(12), p. 491-494.
"Bellingshausen Sea Expedition," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(6), February, 1960, p. 3-8.
[1518]
"United States Summer Activities Cover Wide Field," Antarctic Journal of the U.S., March 1962, 111(1), p. 35-37.
"Charles Wilkes Discoveries confirmed in part by Australians," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(4), December 1959, p. 9.
[1519]
"WilkeS Antarctic Discoveries Now Fully Confirmed," (Kenneth J. Bertrand) Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(6), February 1960, p. 19-22.
[1521]
"Bellingshausen Sea Expedition - Scientific Program," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(7), March 1960, p. 12-15.
[1529]
'Antarctic Treaty," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 11(1), September 1960, p. 2.
[1532]
"Navy accepts first Ski-130," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 11(2), October 1960, p. 4.
"American Deep Freeze 63 Away to Early Start," Antarctic, 111(4), December 1962, p. 143-144.
[1394]
'American Navy Makes Possible Widespread Scientific Research," Antarctic, 111(5) March 1963, p. 203-206.
[1512]
"C-130 Operations Begin," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(5), January 1960, p. 5-6.
[1513]
Reference Number
"The Antarctic Treaty," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(5), January 1960, p. 5- 6.
Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library, 1985-1986 D.S. CASSIDY Department of Geology Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306
ARA is/as Orcadas. 1,684 samples from 53 piston cores, 30 trigger cores, and I Phleger core recovered aboard all five coring cruises of this vessel. International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions (IwsoL). 99 samples from 6 piston cores and 18 Phleger cores representing each of the three (1968, 1969, 1970) IWSOE cruises of U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier. Austral summer 1974-1975 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Burton Island). I grab sample. Austral summer 1978-1979 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
54 samples from 4 piston cores, 6 trigger cores, and 33 DietzLaFond grabs. Dredged, trawled, grabbed, and cored sediments recovered from the southern ocean and on the continent of Antarctica continue to be the foci of activities at the Florida State University's Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library. Services provided during the past year (1 June 1985 to 30 May 1986) in support of the objectives of the USA Antarctic Program (USAAP) are distribution of samples from the nearly 16,500 meters of cores and other specimens comprising the high-latitude collections, receipt and processing of new materials, and description and classification of marine sediments. Sample distribution. On the basis of 37 requests a total of 4,217 samples was distributed to 22 investigators representing 18 institutions in six countries (Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Germany and the United States). The total number of samples distributed can be broken down according to project materials sampled, as follows. USNS Eltanin. 1,802 samples from 93 piston cores, 60 trigger cores, 2 Phleger cores, and 7 Petersen grabs recovered aboard 35 of the 45 southern ocean coring cruises of Eltanin. 1986 REVIEW
Austral summer 1979-1980 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
41 samples from 14 piston cores, I trigger core, and 24 DietzLaFond grabs. Austral summer 1981-1982 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
211 samples from 63 piston cores, 1 trigger core, and 62 DietzLaFond grabs. Austral summer 1982-1983 (U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
41 samples from 8 piston cores and 33 subcores of box cores. Austral summer 1984-1985 (U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
284 samples from 18 piston cores, 10 trigger cores, and 9 DietzLaFond grabs. Thus, the 4,217 samples were removed from a total of 557 individual cores and grabs recovered aboard 49 cruises of four vessels. The majority (86 percent) of the samples were removed from cores and grabs collected by National Science Foundation! Division of Polar Programs sponsored field projects prior to 1980, and more than half of these (the 86 percent) were from specimens retrieved between 1962 and 1972. In other words, older materials, rather than those more recently collected, continue to dominate sample selection. 293
Additional statistical information concerning the year's sampling effort is as follows: • The total number (557) of different cores and grabs from which samples were removed is the third greatest total of different items that have been sampled during any of the past 12 yearly reporting periods, even though the total number (4,217) of samples distributed this year was less than the numbers distributed for 11 of the past 12 years. The greatest number (736) of different items sampled during the past 12 years was for the period 1 June 1981 to 31 May 1982 (5 years ago); the second greatest (683) was 11 years ago. • Similarly, the total number (37) of sample requests that were entertained during this reporting period was exceeded during only 3 of the past 12 years, and not since 8 years ago (38 requests). • The total number (49) of different cruises represented by the samples distributed this year is a significant increase over that of any of the past 12 years. These tabulations were made to evaluate both the usefulness of the sediment collections in storage at the Antarctic Research Facility and the importance of these collections as a dynamic resource of continued interest to scientists worldwide. The acquisition of new materials includes the receipt, in April 1986, of approximately 60 kilograms of frozen rock specimens collected during the 1985-1986 austral summer field season by E. Imre Friedman (Florida State University, Department of Biology) in the ice-free valleys of Antarctica and the receipt (in 29 core boxes) of one-half splits of drill core recovered by a New Zealand field team during October/November 1984 from a single drill hole (hole 2) of Project CIROS (Cenozoic Investigations in the Western Ross Sea). This core comprises 112 meters of sediment (67 percent recovery) in a drill hole drilled to basement at 168 meters (Pyne, Robinson, and Barrett 1985). Enroute to the Facility at the time of preparation of this report are 55 piston cores (117 meters), 57 trigger cores (18 meters), 9 grab samples, 45 subcores of box cores, the bagged recovery of 5 piston-coring attempts, and miscellaneous specimens comprising the geological materials collected aboard U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier during the austral summer 1985-1986 program in the Bransfield and Gerlache Straits, and Marguerite Bay (Anderson 1986). Description and classification of the more than 265 meters of piston and trigger cores (154 cores), 124 grab samples, and the bagged sediments recovered by an additional 24 attempts at piston-coring during the austral summer 1979-1980 cruise of Glacier along the northwestern and southwestern antarctic continental margins in the Ross Sea has been completed (Ka-
294
haroeddin et al. in preparation) and work has just begun on the describing of the austral summer 1984-1985 specimens (128 piston and trigger cores comprising 218 meters of sediment, and 80 bag samples of piston and trigger cores, and grabs) collected from aboard Glacier in the areas of the South Orkney Plateau, the South Shetland Islands, Anvers Island, Marguerite Bay, and Pine Island Bay (Anderson 1985). Miscellaneous activities by staff of the Antarctic Research Facility have included hosting visitors for core study and sampling, performing library work associated with the augmentation and transmittal of publications in the Antarctic Reference Library, and assembling numerous exhibits and displays that promote USAAP programs of research and study involving antarctic science, emphasizing particularly the availability of services that have been routinely provided since 1960 by the Florida State University antarctic curatorial program. A comprehensive listing of reports and other data (such as core description volumes) concerning project collections of the Antarctic Research Facility appears in the list of references in Cassidy (1984). Requests for information about published results of research dealing with the analysis of samples removed from these collections are invited, and may be directed to the Curator. Funding for the work discussed in this report has been provided by National Science Foundation grant C-1059 (DPP 75-19723). References
Anderson, J.B. 1985. Deep Freeze 85 Cruise Report. Houston, Texas: Rice University, Department of Geology. Anderson, J.B. 1986. USARPIDF 86 Cruise Report. Houston, Texas: Rice Univeristy, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Cassidy, D.S. 1984. Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library, 1983-1984. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 19(5), 243-245. Kaharoeddin, EA., M.R. Russell, S.D. Weiterman, C.R. Cooper, S. Knüttel, T.H. Lang, J.L. Applegate, and M.J. Covington. In preparation. USCGC Glacier in the western Ross Sea: USARPIOperaf ion Deep Freeze 1980 sediment descriptions. (Contribution 53). Tallahassee: Flor-
ida State University, Department of Geology, Antarctic Research Facility. Pyne, A.R., P.H. Robinson, and P.J. Barrett. 1985. C!ROS 2 core log, description, photographs and grain size analysis, Ferrar Fjord, Antarctica.
(Antarctic Data Series No. 11). Wellington, New Zealand: Antarctic Research Centre, Research School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.
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Source
[1372]
"Antarctic Treaty Conference," Antarctic, 11(1 1), September 1961, p. 473-475.
[1377] [1380]
[1389]
Source
[1515]
"Deep Freeze 62 Begins," Antarctic Journal of the U.S., December 1961, 11(12), p. 491-494.
"Bellingshausen Sea Expedition," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(6), February, 1960, p. 3-8.
[1518]
"United States Summer Activities Cover Wide Field," Antarctic Journal of the U.S., March 1962, 111(1), p. 35-37.
"Charles Wilkes Discoveries confirmed in part by Australians," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(4), December 1959, p. 9.
[1519]
"WilkeS Antarctic Discoveries Now Fully Confirmed," (Kenneth J. Bertrand) Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(6), February 1960, p. 19-22.
[1521]
"Bellingshausen Sea Expedition - Scientific Program," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(7), March 1960, p. 12-15.
[1529]
'Antarctic Treaty," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 11(1), September 1960, p. 2.
[1532]
"Navy accepts first Ski-130," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 11(2), October 1960, p. 4.
"American Deep Freeze 63 Away to Early Start," Antarctic, 111(4), December 1962, p. 143-144.
[1394]
'American Navy Makes Possible Widespread Scientific Research," Antarctic, 111(5) March 1963, p. 203-206.
[1512]
"C-130 Operations Begin," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(5), January 1960, p. 5-6.
[1513]
Reference Number
"The Antarctic Treaty," Bulletin of the United States Antarctic Projects Office, 1(5), January 1960, p. 5- 6.
Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library, 1985-1986 D.S. CASSIDY Department of Geology Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306
ARA is/as Orcadas. 1,684 samples from 53 piston cores, 30 trigger cores, and I Phleger core recovered aboard all five coring cruises of this vessel. International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions (IwsoL). 99 samples from 6 piston cores and 18 Phleger cores representing each of the three (1968, 1969, 1970) IWSOE cruises of U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier. Austral summer 1974-1975 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Burton Island). I grab sample. Austral summer 1978-1979 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
54 samples from 4 piston cores, 6 trigger cores, and 33 DietzLaFond grabs. Dredged, trawled, grabbed, and cored sediments recovered from the southern ocean and on the continent of Antarctica continue to be the foci of activities at the Florida State University's Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library. Services provided during the past year (1 June 1985 to 30 May 1986) in support of the objectives of the USA Antarctic Program (USAAP) are distribution of samples from the nearly 16,500 meters of cores and other specimens comprising the high-latitude collections, receipt and processing of new materials, and description and classification of marine sediments. Sample distribution. On the basis of 37 requests a total of 4,217 samples was distributed to 22 investigators representing 18 institutions in six countries (Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Germany and the United States). The total number of samples distributed can be broken down according to project materials sampled, as follows. USNS Eltanin. 1,802 samples from 93 piston cores, 60 trigger cores, 2 Phleger cores, and 7 Petersen grabs recovered aboard 35 of the 45 southern ocean coring cruises of Eltanin. 1986 REVIEW
Austral summer 1979-1980 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
41 samples from 14 piston cores, I trigger core, and 24 DietzLaFond grabs. Austral summer 1981-1982 (U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
211 samples from 63 piston cores, 1 trigger core, and 62 DietzLaFond grabs. Austral summer 1982-1983 (U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
41 samples from 8 piston cores and 33 subcores of box cores. Austral summer 1984-1985 (U. S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier).
284 samples from 18 piston cores, 10 trigger cores, and 9 DietzLaFond grabs. Thus, the 4,217 samples were removed from a total of 557 individual cores and grabs recovered aboard 49 cruises of four vessels. The majority (86 percent) of the samples were removed from cores and grabs collected by National Science Foundation! Division of Polar Programs sponsored field projects prior to 1980, and more than half of these (the 86 percent) were from specimens retrieved between 1962 and 1972. In other words, older materials, rather than those more recently collected, continue to dominate sample selection. 293
Additional statistical information concerning the year's sampling effort is as follows: • The total number (557) of different cores and grabs from which samples were removed is the third greatest total of different items that have been sampled during any of the past 12 yearly reporting periods, even though the total number (4,217) of samples distributed this year was less than the numbers distributed for 11 of the past 12 years. The greatest number (736) of different items sampled during the past 12 years was for the period 1 June 1981 to 31 May 1982 (5 years ago); the second greatest (683) was 11 years ago. • Similarly, the total number (37) of sample requests that were entertained during this reporting period was exceeded during only 3 of the past 12 years, and not since 8 years ago (38 requests). • The total number (49) of different cruises represented by the samples distributed this year is a significant increase over that of any of the past 12 years. These tabulations were made to evaluate both the usefulness of the sediment collections in storage at the Antarctic Research Facility and the importance of these collections as a dynamic resource of continued interest to scientists worldwide. The acquisition of new materials includes the receipt, in April 1986, of approximately 60 kilograms of frozen rock specimens collected during the 1985-1986 austral summer field season by E. Imre Friedman (Florida State University, Department of Biology) in the ice-free valleys of Antarctica and the receipt (in 29 core boxes) of one-half splits of drill core recovered by a New Zealand field team during October/November 1984 from a single drill hole (hole 2) of Project CIROS (Cenozoic Investigations in the Western Ross Sea). This core comprises 112 meters of sediment (67 percent recovery) in a drill hole drilled to basement at 168 meters (Pyne, Robinson, and Barrett 1985). Enroute to the Facility at the time of preparation of this report are 55 piston cores (117 meters), 57 trigger cores (18 meters), 9 grab samples, 45 subcores of box cores, the bagged recovery of 5 piston-coring attempts, and miscellaneous specimens comprising the geological materials collected aboard U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier during the austral summer 1985-1986 program in the Bransfield and Gerlache Straits, and Marguerite Bay (Anderson 1986). Description and classification of the more than 265 meters of piston and trigger cores (154 cores), 124 grab samples, and the bagged sediments recovered by an additional 24 attempts at piston-coring during the austral summer 1979-1980 cruise of Glacier along the northwestern and southwestern antarctic continental margins in the Ross Sea has been completed (Ka-
294
haroeddin et al. in preparation) and work has just begun on the describing of the austral summer 1984-1985 specimens (128 piston and trigger cores comprising 218 meters of sediment, and 80 bag samples of piston and trigger cores, and grabs) collected from aboard Glacier in the areas of the South Orkney Plateau, the South Shetland Islands, Anvers Island, Marguerite Bay, and Pine Island Bay (Anderson 1985). Miscellaneous activities by staff of the Antarctic Research Facility have included hosting visitors for core study and sampling, performing library work associated with the augmentation and transmittal of publications in the Antarctic Reference Library, and assembling numerous exhibits and displays that promote USAAP programs of research and study involving antarctic science, emphasizing particularly the availability of services that have been routinely provided since 1960 by the Florida State University antarctic curatorial program. A comprehensive listing of reports and other data (such as core description volumes) concerning project collections of the Antarctic Research Facility appears in the list of references in Cassidy (1984). Requests for information about published results of research dealing with the analysis of samples removed from these collections are invited, and may be directed to the Curator. Funding for the work discussed in this report has been provided by National Science Foundation grant C-1059 (DPP 75-19723). References
Anderson, J.B. 1985. Deep Freeze 85 Cruise Report. Houston, Texas: Rice University, Department of Geology. Anderson, J.B. 1986. USARPIDF 86 Cruise Report. Houston, Texas: Rice Univeristy, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Cassidy, D.S. 1984. Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library, 1983-1984. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 19(5), 243-245. Kaharoeddin, EA., M.R. Russell, S.D. Weiterman, C.R. Cooper, S. Knüttel, T.H. Lang, J.L. Applegate, and M.J. Covington. In preparation. USCGC Glacier in the western Ross Sea: USARPIOperaf ion Deep Freeze 1980 sediment descriptions. (Contribution 53). Tallahassee: Flor-
ida State University, Department of Geology, Antarctic Research Facility. Pyne, A.R., P.H. Robinson, and P.J. Barrett. 1985. C!ROS 2 core log, description, photographs and grain size analysis, Ferrar Fjord, Antarctica.
(Antarctic Data Series No. 11). Wellington, New Zealand: Antarctic Research Centre, Research School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.
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