Pirrung, Michael (2008): Geochemical analysis of surface sediments from the ocean floor and from sea ice in the northern Atlantic and Arctic Oceans [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.686705, Supplement to: Pirrung, Michael; Illner, P; Matthiessen, Jens (2008): Biogenic barium in surface sediments of the European Nordic Seas. Marine Geology, 250(1-2), 89-103, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2008.01.001
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Abstract:
Barium in marine terrigenous surface sediments of the European Nordic Seas is analysed to evaluate its potential as palaeoproductivity proxy. Biogenic Ba is calculated from Ba and Al data using a conventional approach. For the determination of appropriate detrital Ba/Al ratios a compilation of Ba and Al analyses in rocks and soils of the catchments surrounding the Nordic Seas is presented. The resulting average detrital Ba/Al ratio of 0.0070 is similar to global crustal average values. In the southern Nordic Seas the high input of basaltic material with a low Ba/Al ratio is evident from high values of magnetic susceptibility and low Al/Ti ratios. Most of the Ba in the marine surface sediments is of terrigenous and not of biogenic origin. Variability in the lithogenic composition has been considered by the application of regionally varying Ba/Al ratios. The biogenic Ba values are comparable with those observed in the central Arctic Ocean, they are lower than in other oceanic regions. Biogenic Ba values are correlated with other productivity proxies and with oceanographic data for a validation of the applicability in paleoceanography. In the Iceland Sea and partly in the marginal sea–ice zone of the Greenland Sea elevated values of biogenic Ba indicate seasonal phytoplankton blooms. In both areas paleoproductivities may be reconstructed based on Ba and Al data of sediment cores.
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Median Latitude: 76.350308 * Median Longitude: 37.269911 * South-bound Latitude: 59.198000 * West-bound Longitude: -30.898333 * North-bound Latitude: 88.260300 * East-bound Longitude: 118.211700
Date/Time Start: 1985-07-26T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-08-30T03:04:00
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AMK33-3268 * Latitude: 73.216700 * Longitude: 13.289000 * Elevation: -1795.0 m * Location: Norwegian Sea * Campaign: AMK33 * Basis: Akademik Mstislav Keldysh * Method/Device: Grab (GRAB)
AMK33-3269 * Latitude: 73.216700 * Longitude: 13.715800 * Elevation: -1720.0 m * Location: Norwegian Sea * Campaign: AMK33 * Basis: Akademik Mstislav Keldysh * Method/Device: Grab (GRAB)
AMK33-3274 * Latitude: 73.200000 * Longitude: 12.633200 * Elevation: -1682.0 m * Location: Norwegian Sea * Campaign: AMK33 * Basis: Akademik Mstislav Keldysh * Method/Device: Grab (GRAB)
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Longitude of POS146/1 Events were corrected on 2023-11-14
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- Pirrung, M (2008): Geochemical composition of sediments sampled from Arctic sea ice. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.686259
- Pirrung, M (2008): Geochemistry on surface sediments from the Northern Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.686376