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The continental margin of Prydz Bay, Antarctica, is underlain by early Cenozoic and younger glacial deposits that were cored and logged during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 119 in austral summer 1987/88 [Barron, Larsen et al., 1989]. A transect of five sites were drilled across the continental shelf and upper slope (Fig. 1). Downhole geophysical logging was done at two sites on the mid- to outer-continental shelf. This report briefly describes the varied signatures of the drilled glacial sections derived from single-channel seismic-reflection data and downhole logs.
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Cooper, A.K. (1997). Seismic and Downhole-log Signatures of Glacial Deposits from Prydz Bay, Antarctica. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_94
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