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Wagner, C W; van der Togt, C (1973): Carbon14 ages of surface sediment samples from ther Persian Gulf [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.141137, Supplement to: Wagner, CW; van der Togt, C (1973): Holocene sediment types and their distribution in the Southern Persian Gulf. In: Purser, B H; The Persian Gulf, Holocene carbonate sedimentation and diagenesis in a shallow epicontiental sea. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 123-155, hdl:10013/epic.34877.d001

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Abstract:
A simplified classification of the Holocene sediments based on textures and grain type results in fourteen major units, twelve of which are essentially carbonate in composition. A brief description and photographic illustration of these units, together with the sedimentary and diagenetic processes which have contributed to their formation, is designed to give the reader a broad but valid impression of Persian Gulf sediments.
The distribution of the fourteen sediment units throughout the Arabian parts of the basin, although complicated by numerous local bathymetric highs and depressions, is relatively simple. Because the Arabian sea floor slopes progressively from a windward shoreline to the basin center there is increasing protection from wave action towards the center of the basin. As a result sediments grade from skeletal, oolitic and pelletoidal sands (and muds in coastal lagoons) and fringing reefs, through an irregular zone of compound grain sands,into widespread skeletal muddy sands, and finally into basin center muds. These simple relationships vary laterally around the Arabian side of the gulf. Lateral variation is dependant upon orientation of the regional slope with respect to the prevailing NW wind-driven waves, angle of slope, and presence or absence of regional, structurally based barriers.
Coverage:
Latitude: 30.500000 * Longitude: 53.000000
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: m
Event(s):
Persian_Gulf * Latitude: 30.500000 * Longitude: 53.000000 * Elevation Start: -4.0 m * Elevation End: -103.0 m * Location: Persian Gulf * Method/Device: van Veen Grab (VGRAB) * Comment: array of surface sediment samples; no precise position given
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
DEPTH, sediment/rockDepth sedmGeocode
Sample code/labelSample label
Age, dated materialDated material
Depth, bathymetricBathy depthm
Age, datedAge datedkaAge, 14C conventional
Age, dated standard deviationAge dated std dev±
Size:
164 data points

Data

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Depth sed [m]

Sample label

Dated material

Bathy depth [m]

Age dated [ka]

Age dated std dev [±]
0D124mollusk shells from lightly lithified sediment18<0.240
0D235ooidally coated quartz sand411.1000.400
0D783compound grains94.8400.170
0T15compound grains163.4400.170
0T15fresh and micritized shells160.1900.120
0T33compound grains244.2000.170
0T33fresh mollusk shells240.2900.140
0T42compound grains282.4600.140
0T280compound grains193.5400.170
0T666micritized mollusk shells and debris160.3000.140
0T804rounded bioclastic sand60.9800.150
0T810compound grains mollusk shells232.3600.140
0T964compound grains202.1800.150
0T1136compound grains508.8300.260
0T1142compound grains417.8200.240
0T1142mollusk shells410.7600.140
0T1145lithified mollusk muddy sand372.8800.170
0T1291compound grains6714.4000.400
0T1291mollusk shells674.0000.180
0T1294lithified mollusk muddy sand6810.7000.300
0T1296compound grains7612.2000.400
0T1308compound grains8612.1000.300
0T1308mollusk shells862.8200.150
0T1314compound grains10312.5000.400
0T1314mollusk shells1031.3400.140
0T1387mollusk shell fragments63.0500.180
0T1411mollusk shell fragments83.8100.220
0T1429mollusk shell fragments1853.8000.260
0T1527compound grains363.0200.160
0T1527mollusk shells360.5900.140
0T1478lithified mollusk muddy sand412.1200.150
0T1674compound grains328.3400.240
0T1674mollusk shells320.9300.130