Citation:

PANGAEA.940148

Name: Grain size analyses of Late Quaternary sediments from the Vankervelsvlei peatland at the southern Cape coast of South Africa
Published: 2022-01-19
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: African Summer Monsoon; Compound-specific carbon isotopes; Compound-specific hydrogen isotopes; Compound-specific oxygen isotopes; coupled δ2Hn-alkane–δ18Osugar paleohygrometer; elemental geochemistry; Grain Size; hydrology; leaf-wax n-alkane; Paleoclimate; peat geochemistry; precipitation reconstruction; relative humidity; South Africa; sugars; Westerlies

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Keyword(s):

African Summer Monsoon; Compound-specific carbon isotopes; Compound-specific hydrogen isotopes; Compound-specific oxygen isotopes; coupled δ2Hn-alkane–δ18Osugar paleohygrometer; elemental geochemistry; Grain Size; hydrology; leaf-wax n-alkane; Paleoclimate; peat geochemistry; precipitation reconstruction; relative humidity; South Africa; sugars; Westerlies

Related to:

Strobel, Paul; Bliedtner, Marcel; Carr, Andrew S; Struck, Julian; Du Plessis, Nadia; Glaser, Bruno; Meadows, Michael E; Quick, Lynne J; Zech, Michael; Zech, Roland; Haberzettl, Torsten (2022): Reconstructing Late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: A multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from Vankervelsvlei. Quaternary Science Reviews, 284, 107467, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107467

Strobel, Paul; Kasper, Thomas; Frenzel, Peter; Schittek, Karsten; Quick, Lynne J; Meadows, Michael E; Mäusbacher, Roland; Haberzettl, Torsten (2019): Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in the year-round rainfall zone of South Africa derived from peat sediments from Vankervelsvlei. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 200-214, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.014

Funding:

German Science Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 434918595 : Late Quaternary climate and environmental reconstruction based on lake and peat sediments from South Africa

Coverage:

Latitude: -34.013000 * Longitude: 22.904000

Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 11.18 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 13.96 m

Event(s):

Vankervelsvlei * Latitude: -34.013000 * Longitude: 22.904000 * Elevation: 152.0 m * Recovery: 15 m * Location: South Africa * Method/Device: Piston corer, UWITEC (PCUWI) * Comment: Samples were taken in 2016.

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	DEPTH, sediment/rock	Depth sed	m	Strobel, Paul		Geocode
2	Calendar age	Cal age	ka BP	Strobel, Paul
3	Size fraction > 0.063 mm, sand	>63 µm	%	Strobel, Paul	Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer (LS 13320, Beckman Coulter, California, USA); Statistical analyzes: Software Gradistat 4.2 (Blott and Pye, 2001)
4	Size fraction 0.063-0.002 mm, silt, mud	63-2 µm	%	Strobel, Paul	Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer (LS 13320, Beckman Coulter, California, USA); Statistical analyzes: Software Gradistat 4.2 (Blott and Pye, 2001)
5	Size fraction < 0.002 mm, clay	<2 µm	%	Strobel, Paul	Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer (LS 13320, Beckman Coulter, California, USA); Statistical analyzes: Software Gradistat 4.2 (Blott and Pye, 2001)
6	Mode, grain size	Mode	µm	Strobel, Paul	Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer (LS 13320, Beckman Coulter, California, USA); Statistical analyzes: Software Gradistat 4.2 (Blott and Pye, 2001)	Mode 1
7	Grain size, mean	Grain size mean	µm	Strobel, Paul	Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer (LS 13320, Beckman Coulter, California, USA); Statistical analyzes: Software Gradistat 4.2 (Blott and Pye, 2001)
8	Median, grain size	D50	µm	Strobel, Paul	Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer (LS 13320, Beckman Coulter, California, USA); Statistical analyzes: Software Gradistat 4.2 (Blott and Pye, 2001)

License:

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

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

364 data points

Data

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1 Depth sed [m]	2 Cal age [ka BP]	3 >63 µm [%]	4 63-2 µm [%]	5 <2 µm [%]	6 Mode [µm]	7 Grain size mean [µm]	8 D50 [µm]
11.18	20.129	4.3	81.4	14.3	7.8	16.4	8.0
11.19	20.528	4.2	81.6	14.2	10.3	20.1	10.0
11.20	20.943	2.9	83.3	13.8	11.3	15.0	9.5
11.21	21.364	6.4	83.0	10.7	13.6	31.7	12.4
11.22	21.766	1.9	87.7	10.4	12.4	25.1	12.2
11.23	22.198	12.9	77.7	9.4	12.4	16.0	10.6
11.24	22.649	6.8	84.7	8.5	13.6	16.2	10.9
11.25	23.121	1.8	89.7	8.5	9.4	14.6	8.3
11.26	23.590	2.3	88.6	9.1	8.5	14.3	8.4
11.50	31.269	2.9	85.2	11.9	10.3	17.8	9.3
11.54	32.446	5.6	83.1	11.3	8.5	20.2	8.8
11.58	33.534	7.9	80.1	12.0	10.3	18.7	10.5
11.62	34.621	5.3	85.6	9.1	11.3	14.6	9.7
11.66	35.730	1.0	89.5	9.5	9.4	13.6	7.9
11.70	36.829	2.9	84.8	12.3	10.3	13.4	8.3
11.74	37.952	1.7	84.4	13.9	11.3	15.4	9.0
11.78	39.097	3.5	83.8	12.6	7.8	12.8	6.8
11.82	40.066	1.3	80.8	18.0	9.4	35.0	10.6
11.86	41.124	15.0	75.5	9.5	10.3	12.8	8.2
11.90	41.978	0.7	85.0	14.3	9.4	15.8	8.3
11.94	42.615	4.4	82.9	12.7	9.4	14.0	8.3
12.02	43.787	4.4	82.4	13.3	8.5	15.2	7.7
12.29	53.716	5.5	73.6	20.9	7.8	15.8	6.6
12.33	56.331	16.1	66.8	17.1	8.5	40.0	9.8
12.41	61.151	12.8	68.9	18.4	6.5	24.9	9.1
12.45	63.760	12.2	70.1	17.7	7.8	27.1	9.4
12.49	66.261	21.2	63.6	15.3	34.6	40.3	14.3
12.53	68.812	22.0	62.7	15.3	41.7	44.1	15.4
12.57	71.338	24.6	60.6	14.8	34.6	44.8	17.4
12.61	73.835	20.8	65.2	14.0	9.4	45.3	12.3
12.65	76.395	13.4	69.7	16.9	8.5	29.7	10.2
12.69	78.917	12.7	68.8	18.5	7.1	25.8	9.3
12.73	81.221	8.3	71.3	20.4	7.8	21.9	7.3
12.81	85.848	6.6	73.9	19.5	7.8	19.5	7.6
12.85	88.153	7.3	71.8	20.9	7.1	20.5	7.3
12.96	103.247	9.2	68.8	22.0	5.9	16.4	6.3
12.97	105.136	4.8	72.6	22.6	7.1	24.0	7.6
12.98	106.980	9.5	69.7	20.8	6.5	15.5	6.2
12.99	108.833	4.7	72.6	22.7	6.5	16.0	6.3
13.00	109.468	9.1	70.1	20.8	6.5	21.3	7.5
13.04	110.070	54.8	37.7	7.5	203.7	121.9	79.9
13.10	116.064	57.0	37.8	5.2	223.6	134.9	94.1
13.16	119.863	55.5	39.8	4.7	203.7	125.7	88.9
13.26	126.071	93.3	5.0	1.7	203.7	200.1	189.6
13.32	129.839	93.8	5.2	0.9	269.5	267.0	257.3
13.42	136.366	97.0	1.9	1.1	269.5	281.4	267.4
13.48	140.194	98.1	1.3	0.5	269.5	278.2	261.2
13.58	146.640	97.4	1.9	0.8	245.5	260.4	247.3
13.64	150.459	98.3	1.2	0.5	269.5	301.2	282.7
13.74	156.698	97.6	1.7	0.7	269.5	292.9	279.4
13.90	166.721	92.4	6.0	1.6	245.5	243.5	235.3
13.96	171.084	89.1	7.9	3.0	269.5	244.7	241.4