PANGAEA_987056 Total organic carbon and total inorganic carbon content data of sediment core GeoB16310-2 from a coral mound in the Campeche Mound Province, Gulf of Mexico, MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM20/4 Greiffenhagen, Luis; Titschack, Jürgen; Wienberg, Claudia; Hebbeln, Dierk Total organic carbon and total inorganic carbon content data of sediment core GeoB16310-2 from a coral mound in the Campeche Mound Province, Gulf of Mexico, MARIA S. MERIAN cruise MSM20/4 2026-06-01 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987056 Investigator Luis Greiffenhagen Earth Science DEPTH, sediment/rock Carbon, organic, total Carbon, inorganic, total geoscientificInformation Campeche Bank coral mounds GeoB16310-2 Gravity core Gravity corer Gulf of Mexico inorganic carbon MSM20/096-2 MSM20/4 Organic carbon organic carbon content sediment core data TIC TOC Elemental analyzer, LECO, CS744 Maria S. Merian 2012-03-22 2012-03-22 Complete 23.82405 23.82405 -87.170283333333 -87.170283333333 0.15 m (DEPTH, sediment/rock) 4.85 m (DEPTH, sediment/rock) MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences ClusterOceanFloor The Ocean Floor - Earth's Uncharted Interface unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 30 data points text/tab-separated-values Greiffenhagen, Luis; Titschack, Jürgen; Wienberg, Claudia; De Clippele, Laurence Helene; Matos, Lelia; Gafeira, Joanna; Schröder-Ritzrau, Andrea; Arul, K; Frank, N; Hebbeln, Dierk (accepted): Large-Scale Carbon Storage in the Deep Sea through Cold-water Coral Mounds off the Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico. Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-026-02892-1

GeoB16310-2 is a gravity core taken from a coral mound (Ixchel Mound) in the Campeche Mound Province, Gulf of Mexico. Here we measure the TIC/TOC content in wt.% from the mound's sediments at a roughly comparable time interval, using a LECO CS 744 at the Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Germany. Thereby, sub-samples were measured for total carbon content before and after treatment with hydrochloric acid (i.e. TOC remains, TIC dissolves). TIC was calculated from the difference between TC and TOC (first and second measurement per sample). This contributes to a multi-step analysis of the core with the aim to calculate the total carbon accumulation (organic and inorganic carbon) within the mound. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987056"!

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-026-02892-1 Large-Scale Carbon Storage in the Deep Sea through Cold-water Coral Mounds off the Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Maria_S._Merian Maria S. Merian https://www.marum.de/en/ MARUM https://www.marum.de/en/The-Ocean-Floor.html ClusterOceanFloor DIF 9.4 2026-06-01 2026-07-10