| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
| 1 | Sample number | Sample no | | Frieling, Joost | | |
| 2 | SECTION, height | Section | m | Frieling, Joost | | Geocode |
| 3 | Mass | Mass | g | Frieling, Joost | | Sediment extracted |
| 4 | Isoprenoid acyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (peak area) | iso GDGT-0 | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 5 | Isoprenoid monocyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (peak area) | iso GDGT-1 | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 6 | Isoprenoid dicyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (peak area) | iso GDGT-2 | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 7 | Isoprenoid tricyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (peak area) | iso GDGT-3 | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 8 | Crenarchaeol (peak area) | Cren peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 9 | Crenarchaeol isomer (peak area) | Cren iso peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 10 | Isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, 5 (peak area) | iso GDGT-5 | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 11 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIa (peak area) | brGDGT IIIa peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 12 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIa' (peak area) | brGDGT IIIa' peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 13 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIb (peak area) | brGDGT IIIb peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 14 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIb' (peak area) | brGDGT IIIb' peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 15 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIc (peak area) | brGDGT IIIc peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 16 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIc' (peak area) | brGDGT IIIc' peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 17 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIa (peak area) | brGDGT IIa peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 18 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIa' (peak area) | brGDGT IIa' peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 19 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIb (peak area) | brGDGT IIb peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 20 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIb' (peak area) | brGDGT IIb' peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 21 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIc (peak area) | brGDGT IIc peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 22 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIc' (peak area) | brGDGT IIc' peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 23 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ia (peak area) | brGDGT Ia peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 24 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ib (peak area) | brGDGT Ib peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 25 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ic (peak area) | brGDGT Ic peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 26 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H1048 (peak area) | brGMGT H1048 peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | m/z 1048 |
| 27 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H1048 (peak area) | brGMGT H1048 peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | m/z 1049 |
| 28 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H1034b (peak area) | brGMGT H1034b peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | m/z 1034b |
| 29 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H1034 (peak area) | brGMGT H1034 peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | m/z 1034? |
| 30 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H1020a (peak area) | brGMGT H1020a peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | m/z 1020a |
| 31 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H1020b (peak area) | brGMGT H1020b peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | m/z 1020b |
| 32 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H1020c (peak area) | brGMGT H1020c peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | m/z 1020c |
| 33 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers, H744 (peak area) | brGMGT H744 peak area | | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 34 | Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, per unit sediment mass | GDGT/sed | ng/g | Frieling, Joost | Ultra high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (UHPLC-MS) | |
| 35 | Ring index | RI | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Zhang et al. (2011) | |
| 36 | Ring index of tetraether index of 86 carbon atoms | RI-TEX86 | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Zhang et al. (2011) | |
| 37 | ΔRing index | ΔRI | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Zhang et al. (2011) | |
| 38 | Branched and isoprenoid tetraether index | BIT | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Hopmans et al. (2004) | |
| 39 | Tetraether index of 86 carbon atoms | TEX86 | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated according to Schouten et al. (2002) | |
| 40 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether | brGDGT | % | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Sinninghe Damsté (2016) | %tetra methyl |
| 41 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether | brGDGT | % | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Sinninghe Damsté (2016) | %penta methyl |
| 42 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether | brGDGT | % | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Sinninghe Damsté (2016) | %hex methyl |
| 43 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether | brGDGT | # | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Sinninghe Damsté (2016) | #ringstetra |
| 44 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether | brGDGT | # | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Sinninghe Damsté (2016) | #ringspenta 5Me |
| 45 | Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether | brGDGT | # | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Sinninghe Damsté (2016) | #ringspenta 6Me |
| 46 | Isomer ratio | IR | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Sinninghe Damsté (2016) | |
| 47 | Methylation index of branched tetraethers | MBT | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated according to De Jonge et al. (2014a) | |
| 48 | Methylation index of branched tetraethers | MBT | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated according to Naafs et al. (2017) | HMBT |
| 49 | Branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers index | brGMGTI | | Frieling, Joost | Calculated after Baxter et al. (2019) | |