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<Entry_ID>PANGAEA_989250</Entry_ID>
<Entry_Title>Dissolved neodymium concentrations and isotopic composition from the full water column in the South Pacific Ocean during SONNE cruise SO289 (GEOTRACES section GP21)</Entry_Title>
<Data_Set_Citation>
<Dataset_Creator>Zhang, Zhouling; Xu, Antao; Hathorne, Ed C; Gutjahr, Marcus; Frank, Martin</Dataset_Creator>
<Dataset_Title>Dissolved neodymium concentrations and isotopic composition from the full water column in the South Pacific Ocean during SONNE cruise SO289 (GEOTRACES section GP21)</Dataset_Title>
<Dataset_Release_Date>2026-01-16</Dataset_Release_Date>
<Dataset_Publisher>PANGAEA</Dataset_Publisher>
<Data_Presentation_Form>Dataset</Data_Presentation_Form>
<Online_Resource>https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.989250</Online_Resource>
</Data_Set_Citation>
<Personnel>
<Role>Investigator</Role>
<First_Name>Zhouling</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Zhang</Last_Name>
<Email>zzhang@geomar.de</Email>
</Personnel>
<Discipline>
<Discipline_Name>Earth Science</Discipline_Name>
</Discipline>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Event label</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Date/Time of event</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Station label</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>LATITUDE</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>LONGITUDE</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Depth, bathymetric</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>DEPTH, water</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Pressure, water</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Temperature, water</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Salinity</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Density, sigma, in situ</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Neutral density</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Oxygen</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Neodymium, dissolved</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>ε-Neodymium</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>ε-Neodymium, standard error</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>ε-Neodymium, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
<Keyword>CTD/Rosette</Keyword>
<Keyword>Fish undulating, recording system tow</Keyword>
<Keyword>Nd concentration</Keyword>
<Keyword>Nd isotopic composition</Keyword>
<Keyword>ocean circulation</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_0_Underway-3</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_10-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_1-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_12-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_14-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_16-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_18-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_19-3</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_2-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_22-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_23-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_24-4</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_26-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_28-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_3-1</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_31-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_33-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_35-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_36-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_37-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_38-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_4-1</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_41-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_42-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_43-1</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_44-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_5-1</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_6-3</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_7-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>SO289_8-2</Keyword>
<Keyword>South Pacific Ocean</Keyword>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>CTD</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Source_Name>
<Long_Name>Sonne_2</Long_Name>
</Source_Name>
<Temporal_Coverage>
<Start_Date>2022-02-23</Start_Date>
<Stop_Date>2022-04-03</Stop_Date>
</Temporal_Coverage>
<Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
<Spatial_Coverage>
<Southernmost_Latitude>-33.60752</Southernmost_Latitude>
<Northernmost_Latitude>-25.7181</Northernmost_Latitude>
<Westernmost_Longitude>172.0453</Westernmost_Longitude>
<Easternmost_Longitude>-71.72897999999998</Easternmost_Longitude>
<Minimum_Depth>5.0 m (DEPTH, water)</Minimum_Depth>
<Maximum_Depth>5984.0 m (DEPTH, water)</Maximum_Depth>
</Spatial_Coverage>
<Access_Constraints>unrestricted</Access_Constraints>
<Use_Constraints>CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</Use_Constraints>
<Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
<Data_Center>
<Data_Center_Name>
<Short_Name>PANGAEA</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>Data Publisher for Earth &amp; Environmental Science</Long_Name>
</Data_Center_Name>
<Data_Center_URL>https://www.pangaea.de/</Data_Center_URL>
<Personnel>
<Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
<First_Name>Michael</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Diepenbroek</Last_Name>
<Email>info@pangaea.de</Email>
<Contact_Address>
<Address>Leobener Str.</Address>
<City>Bremen</City>
<Province_or_State>Bremen</Province_or_State>
<Postal_Code>28359</Postal_Code>
<Country>Germany</Country>
</Contact_Address>
</Personnel>
</Data_Center>
<Distribution>
<Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
<Distribution_Size>2596 data points</Distribution_Size>
<Distribution_Format>text/tab-separated-values</Distribution_Format>
</Distribution>
<Reference>Zhang, Zhouling; Xu, Antao; Chen, Xue-Gang; Hathorne, Edmund; Gutjahr, Marcus; Frank, Martin (2026): Conservative Behavior of Radiogenic Neodymium Isotopes in the South Pacific Interior. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 678, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.119850</Reference>
<Summary>This dataset contains dissolved neodymium (Nd) concentrations and radiogenic Nd isotope compositions from full water-column seawater profiles collected in the South Pacific Ocean during the GEOTRACES section GP21 (Chile to New Caledonia) aboard R/V SONNE (cruise SO289) between 23 February and 4 April 2022.
Between 10 and 40 L of seawater were collected using 10 L Niskin bottles mounted on a stainless-steel CTD rosette. Beginning at Station 18, an additional 40 L of surface seawater was collected using a trace-metal-clean tow-fish to enable Nd isotope measurements at expected low concentrations.
Samples for Nd isotope analysis were pre-concentrated onboard by coprecipitation with Fe hydroxide and later purified in the home laboratory before analysis by MC-ICP-MS (Thermo Neptune Plus). Nd concentrations were determined from 1 L acidified seawater aliquots spiked with a ¹⁵⁰Nd spike, processed via Fe-hydroxide coprecipitation and AG 50W-X8 cation exchange purification, and measured by isotope-dilution MC-ICP-MS with external reproducibility better than 0.2%. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.989250"!</Summary>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LATITUDE</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LONGITUDE</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>http://www.teos-10.org/preteos10_software/neutral_density.html</URL>
<Description>Neutral density</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.119850</URL>
<Description>Conservative Behavior of Radiogenic Neodymium Isotopes in the South Pacific Interior</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.48433/cr_so289</URL>
<Description>SO289</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://uol.de/icbm/forschungsplattformen-schiffe/sonne</URL>
<Description>Sonne_2</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Metadata_Name>DIF</Metadata_Name>
<Metadata_Version>9.4</Metadata_Version>
<DIF_Creation_Date>2026-01-16</DIF_Creation_Date>
<Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2026-02-15</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
</DIF>
