<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><resource xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.3/metadata.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4"><identifier identifierType="DOI">10.1594/PANGAEA.982945</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName>Safaierad, Reza</creatorName><givenName>Reza</givenName><familyName>Safaierad</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-8295-2560</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/00afp2z80">Argiles, Géochimie et Environnement sédimentaires , University of Liège</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Israde-Alcántara, Isabel</creatorName><givenName>Isabel</givenName><familyName>Israde-Alcántara</familyName><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/00z0kq074">Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Rantala, Marttiina V</creatorName><givenName>Marttiina V</givenName><familyName>Rantala</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-3231-5926</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/00afp2z80">Argiles, Géochimie et Environnement sédimentaires , University of Liège</affiliation><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/01r9htc13">Laboratoire G-Time, Université libre de Bruxelles</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Domínguez-Vázquez, Gabriela</creatorName><givenName>Gabriela</givenName><familyName>Domínguez-Vázquez</familyName><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/00z0kq074">Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Schefuß, Enno</creatorName><givenName>Enno</givenName><familyName>Schefuß</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-5960-930X</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/04ers2y35">MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Tylmann, Wojciech</creatorName><givenName>Wojciech</givenName><familyName>Tylmann</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0003-1749-5882</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/011dv8m48">University of Gdańsk</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Francus, Pierre</creatorName><givenName>Pierre</givenName><familyName>Francus</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0001-5465-1966</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/04td37d32">National Institute of Scientific Research, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Mattielli, Nadine</creatorName><givenName>Nadine</givenName><familyName>Mattielli</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-7170-1520</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/01r9htc13">Laboratoire G-Time, Université libre de Bruxelles</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Metcalfe, Sarah</creatorName><givenName>Sarah</givenName><familyName>Metcalfe</familyName><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/01ee9ar58">School of Geography, University of Nottingham</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Fagel, Nathalie</creatorName><givenName>Nathalie</givenName><familyName>Fagel</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-8231-8295</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/00afp2z80">Argiles, Géochimie et Environnement sédimentaires , University of Liège</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) core scanning from sediment core  of Lake Alchichica in Mexico</title></titles><publisher>PANGAEA</publisher><publicationYear>2026</publicationYear><subjects><subject>carbon isotope</subject><subject>Deuterium Isotopes</subject><subject>leaf waxes</subject><subject>Mexico</subject><subject>oxygen isotope</subject><subject>Pollen</subject><subject>Sediment core</subject><subject>XRD</subject><subject>XRF core scanner data</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">DEPTH, sediment/rock</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">AGE</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Chlorine (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Potassium (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Calcium (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Titanium (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Silicon (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Manganese (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Iron (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Nickel (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Copper (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Strontium (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Zirconium (centered log ratio)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">(Rhodium-Indium)/coherence ratio</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Sediment corer, UWITEC</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Age, Bayesian based model Plum on Pb-210 and C-14 data</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Powder X-ray diffractometer (XRD), Bruker, D8 ADVANCE ECO</subject></subjects><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Dataset</resourceType><relatedIdentifiers><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="IsSupplementTo">10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109618</relatedIdentifier></relatedIdentifiers><sizes><size>3431 data points</size></sizes><formats><format>text/tab-separated-values</format></formats><rightsList><rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" schemeURI="https://spdx.org/licenses/" rightsIdentifierScheme="SPDX" rightsIdentifier="CC-BY-4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">The geochemical data were measured from a 57-cm-long sediment core retrieved from Lake Alchichica (19° 24' 38 N, 97° 24' 14 W, 2322 masl) at a water depth of ~ 60 m using a Uwitec® coring device equipped with a 9-cm coring tube. Geochemical compositions of the sediment core were analyzed using an ITRAX X-ray fluorescence core scanner (CS-XRF) at the INRS Centre Eau Terre Environnement in Canada. The analysis produced the ratio of Compton (incoherent) to Rayleigh (coherent) scattering (Inc/Coh), which can serve as an indicator of sediment organic content. The scans were measured at 2 mm intervals using 20 kV with a current of 10 mA and a dwell time of 20 seconds. To reduce matrix effects and address the closed-sum issue, elemental intensities (measured in counts per second) were transformed using the centered log-ratio (clr) method. For better visualization, all elemental data were subjected to min-max normalization.</description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationPoint><pointLongitude>-97.4389</pointLongitude><pointLatitude>19.5056</pointLatitude></geoLocationPoint></geoLocation></geoLocations><fundingReferences><fundingReference><funderName>Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique</funderName><funderIdentifier funderIdentifierType="Crossref Funder ID">https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002661</funderIdentifier><awardNumber>PDR T.0079.21</awardNumber><awardTitle>Holocene Mexican Crater Lakes and Climate (HolMeCl)</awardTitle></fundingReference></fundingReferences></resource>