Tierney, Jessica E (2022): An updated age model for sediment core DSDDP 5017-1-A [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940125
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Abstract:
The age model for this core was updated to the IntCal20 curve (for radiocarbon dates) using BACON age modeling software (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rbacon/). The data span 160,000 years and describe changes in Dead Sea hydroclimate and the surrounding landscape.
Supplement to:
Tierney, Jessica E; Torfstein, Adi; Bhattacharya, Tripti (2022): Late Quaternary hydroclimate of the Levant: The leaf wax record from the Dead Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 289, 107613, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107613
Related to:
Tierney, Jessica E (2022): Dead Sea leaf wax stable carbon and hydrogen isotopes in sediment core DSDDP 5017-1-A. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940127
Further details:
Blaauw, Maarten; Christen, Andrés (2011): Flexible paleoclimate age-depth models using an autoregressive gamma process. Bayesian Analysis, 6(3), 457-474, https://doi.org/10.1214/11-BA618
Goldstein, Steven L; Kiro, Yael; Torfstein, Adi; Kitagawa, Hiroyuki; Tierney, Jessica E; Stein, Mordechai (2020): Revised chronology of the ICDP Dead Sea deep drill core relates drier-wetter-drier climate cycles to insolation over the past 220 kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244, 106460, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106460
Kagan, Elisa; Stein, Mordechai; Marco, Shmuel (2018): Integrated Paleoseismic Chronology of the Last Glacial Lake Lisan: From Lake Margin Seismites to Deep‐Lake Mass Transport Deposits. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(4), 2806-2824, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014117
Kitagawa, Hiroyuki; Stein, Mordechai; Goldstein, Steven L; Nakamura, Toshio; Lazar, Boaz; DSDDP Scientific Party (2017): Radiocarbon Chronology of the DSDDP Core at the Deepest Floor of the Dead Sea. Radiocarbon, 59(2), 383-394, https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2016.120
Torfstein, Adi; Goldstein, Steven L; Kushnir, Yochanan; Enzel, Yehouda; Haug, Gerald H; Stein, Mordechai (2015): Dead Sea drawdown and monsoonal impacts in the Levant during the last interglacial. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 412, 235-244, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.013
Funding:
National Science Foundation (NSF), grant/award no. 1412195: RAPID: Analyzing dDwax in the Dead Sea DSDDP Core as an Indicator of Aridity and a Stratigraphic Aid
Coverage:
Latitude: 31.508050 * Longitude: 35.471000
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.00 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 455.89 m
Event(s):
Comment:
The type of datum:
yearofcollection = the year that the core was collected, which is used to constrain the core top age.
uth: U/Th date on primary aragonite, from Torfstein et al. (2015).
c14: radiocarbon date on terrestrial plant debris, from Kitagawa et al. (2017).
tiepointG: tiepoint to dated outcrops of the Lisan Formation, from Goldstein et al., (2020).
tiepointS: tiepoint to the Soreq Cave speleothem oxygen isotope record, from Goldstein et al., (2020).
tiepointO: tiepoint to Northern Hemisphere summer insolation, from Goldstein et al., (2020).
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | Tierney, Jessica E | Geocode – depth in the core | |
| 2 | Depth, corrected | Depth corr | m | Tierney, Jessica E | Event-free depth | depthEFD: event-free depth. This depth scale omits mass transport deposits as described in Kagan et al. (2018) |
| 3 | Age, dated | Age dated | ka | Tierney, Jessica E | the age of the datum. For radiocarbon dates, the unit is radiocarbon kiloyears before present. For all other datum types, the unit is kiloyears before present | |
| 4 | Age, dated standard deviation | Age dated std dev | ± | Tierney, Jessica E | the 1-sigma error associated with the datum, in the same units as RawAge | |
| 5 | Calendar age, median | Cal age median | ka BP | Tierney, Jessica E | Age model, Bacon (Blaauw & Christen, 2011) | the median of the posterior age |
| 6 | Calendar age, mean | Cal age mean | ka BP | Tierney, Jessica E | Age model, Bacon (Blaauw & Christen, 2011) | the mean of the posterior age |
| 7 | Calendar age, minimum/young | Cal age min | ka BP | Tierney, Jessica E | Age model, Bacon (Blaauw & Christen, 2011) | the minimum value of the posterior age |
| 8 | Calendar age, maximum/old | Cal age max | ka BP | Tierney, Jessica E | Age model, Bacon (Blaauw & Christen, 2011) | the maximum value of the posterior age |
| 9 | Type | Type | Tierney, Jessica E | the type of datum (see dataset comment) |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
519 data points