<p><b>Images of sediment types from the Southern Ocean</b>
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<ul><li>(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;</li>
<li>(B) shelf sediments including a high amount of gravel;</li>
<li>(C) sediment strongly bioturbated by benthic organisms living in and from the sediment;</li>
<li>(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.</li></ul>
Hannes Grobe/AWI
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Grobe, H., Diekmann, B., Hillenbrand, C.-D.(2009). The memory of the Polar Oceans, In: Hempel, G. (ed) Biology of Polar Oceans, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.33599.d001">hdl:10013/epic.33599.d001</a>, pdf 0.4 MB.