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

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

Patrick Quilty
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Phil O'Brien
Macquarie University

Peter Harris
GRID-ARENDAL

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

Johnathan Kool

897

occurrence records

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