Citation:

PANGAEA.904144

Name: Size fractions of Saharan dust samples from the Cape Blanc region (NW Africa)
Published: 2019-07-19
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: hematite stained quartz; iron; NW Africa; Saharan dust

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Published: 2019-07-19 • DOI registered: 2019-08-17

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Keyword(s):

hematite stained quartz; iron; NW Africa; Saharan dust

Related to:

Voelker, Antje H L (1993): Eiseneintrag durch Saharastaub in den Ostatlantik in den letzten 30.000 Jahren: Ein Test der Iron Hypothesis. Diploma Thesis, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany, 53 pp

Project(s):

Institute for Geosciences, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel (GIK/IfG)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 20.191454 * Median Longitude: -16.961094 * South-bound Latitude: 17.854170 * West-bound Longitude: -17.313330 * North-bound Latitude: 25.467670 * East-bound Longitude: -16.267000

Date/Time Start: 1975-08-02T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1977-02-22T00:00:00

Minimum ALTITUDE: 0 m * Maximum ALTITUDE: 0 m

Event(s):

Deck_RV_Valdivia * Latitude: 17.854170 * Longitude: -17.167330 * Date/Time: 1975-08-02T00:00:00 * Method/Device: Dust collector (DUC)

Komet_WB * Latitude: 17.891670 * Longitude: -17.165000 * Date/Time Start: 1977-01-23T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1977-02-21T00:00:00 * Method/Device: Buoy (BUOY)

Littorina_SB * Latitude: 19.003330 * Longitude: -16.531670 * Date/Time Start: 1977-01-23T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1977-02-22T00:00:00 * Method/Device: Buoy (BUOY)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Event label	Event		Lange, Heinz
2	Latitude of event	Latitude		Lange, Heinz
3	Longitude of event	Longitude		Lange, Heinz
4	Latitude of event 2	Latitude 2		Lange, Heinz
5	Longitude of event 2	Longitude 2		Lange, Heinz
6	Date/Time of event	Date/Time		Lange, Heinz
7	Date/Time of event 2	Date/Time 2		Lange, Heinz
8	ALTITUDE	Altitude	m	Lange, Heinz	Geocode
9	Size fraction > 0.063 mm, sand	>63 µm	%	Lange, Heinz
10	Size fraction 0.063-0.020 mm, coarse silt	63-20 µm gU	%	Lange, Heinz
11	Size fraction 0.020-0.006 mm	20-6 µm	%	Lange, Heinz
12	Size fraction 0.006-0.002 mm	6-2 µm	%	Lange, Heinz
13	Size fraction < 0.002 mm, clay	<2 µm	%	Lange, Heinz

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Size:

25 data points

Data

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1 Event	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	4 Latitude 2	5 Longitude 2	6 Date/Time	7 Date/Time 2	9 >63 µm [%]	10 63-20 µm gU [%]	11 20-6 µm [%]	12 6-2 µm [%]	13 <2 µm [%]
M39_transect_1	25.4677	-16.2670	20.7067	-17.3133	1975-11-21	1975-12-03	4.28	30.83	26.84	24.84	13.48
M39_transect_2	19.7100	-16.9700	20.7067	-17.3133	1975-11-28	1975-12-03	4.46	26.51	27.60	27.86	13.57
Deck_RV_Valdivia	17.8542	-17.1673			1975-08-02		0.21	61.41	26.79	3.87	7.11
Littorina_SB	19.0033	-16.5317			1977-01-23	1977-02-22	2.50	51.54	27.92	5.14	12.89
Komet_WB	17.8917	-17.1650			1977-01-23	1977-02-21	0.29	56.87	23.20	5.35	14.27