Name: Diatom and foraminiferal samples from surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica
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Surficial bottom sediments have been collected from Prydz Bay, Antarctica from 5 voyages from 1981 to 1995. Devices used include gravity core, grabs, pipe dredge. Most collections are from 200 to 800 metres depth with the deepest at 3200 metres.

Citation

Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Diatom and foraminiferal samples from surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica.

Published

May 07, 2021 at 04:35

First registration

June 24, 2020 at 14:57

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=prydz_diatoms

Archive

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=prydz_diatoms

Contacts

Patrick Quilty
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Phil O'Brien
Macquarie University

Peter Harris
GRID-ARENDAL

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

Johnathan Kool

897

total submitted occurrences

853

accepted occurrences

147

taxa

106

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
eventDate	49		5.5%
maximumDepthInMeters	897		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	897		100.0%
scientificNameID	3	66	7.7%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	897	100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	123	13.7%
NO_MATCH	44	4.9%
MARINE_UNSURE	19	2.1%
ON_LAND	4	0.4%

Diatom and foraminiferal samples from surficial sediments of Prydz Bay, Antarctica

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data