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Andvord Drift: a new type of inner shelf, glacial marine deposystem from the Antarctic Peninsula

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Hemipelagic, sediment drift deposits have been discovered and mapped on the Antarctic Peninsula shelf in 300-500 m water depth. The drift located adjacent to Andvord Bay covers 44.5 km2 and exhibits continuous and discontinuous parallel reflections that conform to peaks and valleys in the acoustic basement as observed in deep-tow boomer and sparker seismic records. This style of drift deposit is a common feature of deep oceanic sediments, but is not normally found in continental shelf environments.

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Title Andvord Drift: a new type of inner shelf, glacial marine deposystem from the Antarctic Peninsula
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/362ff33a-47e4-48b7-9750-bd232ca3e3ba
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        63.5,
        -65.5
      ],
      [
        62.0,
        -65.5
      ],
      [
        62.0,
        -64.5
      ],
      [
        63.5,
        -64.5
      ],
      [
        63.5,
        -65.5
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Andvord Drift: a new type of inner shelf, glacial marine deposystem from the Antarctic Peninsula". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/andvord-drift-a-new-type-of-inner-shelf-glacial-marine-deposystem-from-the-antarctic-peninsula