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Sedimentological Attributes and Quartz Microtexture in the Levee Sediments of a Submarine Channel in Context of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Fluctuations: A Study from Site U-1359 of IODP-318 Expedition

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Sedimentological characterization of the marine sediments has been used for understanding the sediment distribution and processes occurring off the coast of East Antarctica. These sediments represent several glacial-interglacial cycles. The location of site U1359 on the eastern levee of Jussieu submarine channel in the continental rise makes it an important site for grain size analyses and quartz grains texture. The site is also important from the processes point of view as presently the area is influenced by various agents starting from the turbidity current to various bottom water currents. The grain size analyses, as well as the quartz grain textural analyses, supports the previously inferred stages of ice retreat and ice advancements in the Wilkes Land sector and displays utility of quartz microtexture and grain size study in inferring the past sedimentological processes.

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This work is a result of analyses on sediments of the drill core U1359 provided by the IODP Expedition 318. The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research funded this project. Dr. N. C. Mehra, Department of Geology, University of Delhi is acknowledged for his support in SEM-EDS analysis. SEM-EDS support from MoES funded project (MoES/PAMC/H&C/51/2013-PC-II) is also thankfully acknowledged. We are grateful to Professor Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Department of Geology, University of Delhi and Rashmi Gupta (CSIR-JRF), Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi for constructive discussions and support.

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Biswas, P., Pant, N.C., Pandey, M., Shrivastava, P.K. (2020). Sedimentological Attributes and Quartz Microtexture in the Levee Sediments of a Submarine Channel in Context of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Fluctuations: A Study from Site U-1359 of IODP-318 Expedition. In: Pandey, D., Ravichandran, M., Nair, N. (eds) Dynamics of the Earth System: Evolution, Processes and Interactions. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40659-2_8

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