PANGAEA_987977 Clay mineralogy of sediment core SO121_KL42, southern Red Sea Ehrmann, Werner; Schmiedl, Gerhard Clay mineralogy of sediment core SO121_KL42, southern Red Sea 2025-12-15 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987977 Investigator Werner Ehrmann ehrmann@rz.uni-leipzig.de Earth Science DEPTH, sediment/rock Smectite Illite Palygorskite Chlorite Kaolinite geoscientificInformation 99 Clay minerals Piston corer Meischner large Red Sea Sediment core SO121 SO121_KL42 X-ray diffraction, Rigaku Corp., miniflex [carbonate-free fraction, <2 µm] Sonne 1997-08-01 1997-08-01 Complete 15.915666666667 15.915666666667 41.578333333333 41.578333333333 0.005 m (DEPTH, sediment/rock) 8.295 m (DEPTH, sediment/rock) 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 3190 data points text/tab-separated-values Ehrmann, Werner; Schmiedl, Gerhard (2021): Nature and dynamics of North African humid and dry periods during the last 200,000 years documented in the clay fraction of Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 260, 106925, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106925

We present high-resolution clay mineral data from the upper 8.30 m of marine sediment core KL42 from the southern Red Sea. The core was recovered at 15°54.9' N and 41°34.7' E from a water depth of 958 m during RV Sonne cruise SO121 in 1997. We investigated the carbonate-free sediment fraction <2µm by X-ray diffraction, using a Rigaku Corp. miniflex system. Percentages of smectite, illite, chlorite, kaolinite and palygorskite were calculated. For details see Ehrmann and Schmiedl 2021. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987977"!

http://www.mindat.org/min-11116.html Smectite http://www.mindat.org/min-11468.html Chlorite http://www.mindat.org/min-2011.html Illite http://www.mindat.org/min-2156.html Kaolinite http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~geologie/Mitarbeiter/Ehrmann/ehrmann.htm https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106925 Nature and dynamics of North African humid and dry periods during the last 200,000 years documented in the clay fraction of Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea sediments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Sonne Sonne https://www.mindat.org/min-3072.html Palygorskite DIF 9.4 2025-12-15 2026-04-29