Project information
QUILTY, Prof. Patrick (Pat)
University of Tasmania
Ocean Drilling Program, Australia (or home country), Marine Science
Project aim
The Antarctic environment has not always been the way it now is and modern research indicates it may be more dynamic than thought until recently. To document this, fossil-bearing sediments from the last 5 million years will be examined using well established techniques. This project will contribute data from the diverse sedimentary rock sections that lie around the margins of Prydz Bay, and which have been identified only in recent years. This is now emerging as one of the most suitable areas around the Antarctic margin for this type of research.
Related publications
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Australodelphis mirus, a bizarre new toothless ziphiid-like fossil dolphin (Cetacea; Delphinidae) from the Pliocene of Vestfold Hills, east Antarctica Antarctic Science, 2002
(Ref: 10419)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Reworked Paleocene and Eocene foraminifera, Mac. Robertson Shelf, East Antarctica: paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 2001
(Ref: 10420)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Paleocene-Eocene biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of East Antarctica: new data from the Mac. Robertson Shelf and western parts of Prydz Bay. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 2000
(Ref: 9222)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Book review. Ramsay, A.T.S. & Baldauf, J.G. Reassessment of the Southern Ocean Biochronology The Australian Geologist, 1999
(Ref: 9223)
Authors:Category 3: Book review