Citation:

PANGAEA.992501 (dataset in review)

Name: Grain size distribution of surface sediment samples from the western tropical South Atlantic collected during R/V METEOR cruise M125
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Alkenone Uk'37 index; BIT index; GDGTs; Grain Size; n-alkanes; Sea surface temperature proxy; Surface sediments; TEXH86; total carbon (TC); total nitrogen (TN); Total organic carbon (TOC); western tropical South Atlantic; XRF

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Keyword(s):

Alkenone Uk'37 index; BIT index; GDGTs; Grain Size; n-alkanes; Sea surface temperature proxy; Surface sediments; TEXH86; total carbon (TC); total nitrogen (TN); Total organic carbon (TOC); western tropical South Atlantic; XRF

References:

Bahr, André; Albuquerque, Ana Luiza Spadano; Ardenghi, Nicolò; Batenburg, Sietske J; Bayer, Margret; Catunda, Maria Carolina Amorim; Conforti, Alessandro; Dias, Bruna Borba; Díaz, Rut A; Egger, Lisa M; Evers, Florian; Fischer, Tobias; Hatsukano, Kenji; Hennrich, Barbara; Hoffmann, Julia; Jivcov, Sandra; Kusch, Stephanie; Munz, Philipp; Niedermeyer, Eva M; Osborne, Anne H; Raddatz, Jacek; Raeke, Andreas; Reissig, Stefan; Sebastian, Ulrich; Taniguchi, Nancy Kazumi; Venancio, Igor Martins; Voigt, Silke; Wachholz, Alexander (2016): South American Hydrological Balance and Paleoceanography during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene (SAMBA) - Cruise No. M125 - March 21 - April 15, 2016 - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Fortaleza (Brazil). METEOR-Berichte, DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie, M125, 47 pp, https://doi.org/10.2312/cr_m125

Hopmans, Ellen C; Schouten, Stefan; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S (2016): The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies. Organic Geochemistry, 93, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.12.006

Paterson, Greig A; Heslop, David (2015): New methods for unmixing sediment grain size data. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(12), 4494-4506, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GC006070

Coverage:

Median Latitude: -17.553253 * Median Longitude: -38.988385 * South-bound Latitude: -23.103300 * West-bound Longitude: -41.518000 * North-bound Latitude: -10.582300 * East-bound Longitude: -36.051300

Date/Time Start: 2016-03-22T12:51:00 * Date/Time End: 2016-04-11T14:29:00

Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0 m

Event(s):

M125_406-3 * Latitude: -22.859200 * Longitude: -41.093000 * Date/Time: 2016-03-22T12:51:00 * Elevation: -79.1 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: (SAMBA) * Basis: * Method/Device: MultiCorer (MUC)

M125_407-4 * Latitude: -23.079500 * Longitude: -41.356300 * Date/Time: 2016-03-22T18:14:00 * Elevation: -80.9 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: (SAMBA) * Basis: * Method/Device: MultiCorer (MUC)

M125_408-2 * Latitude: -23.103300 * Longitude: -41.446300 * Date/Time: 2016-03-22T19:46:00 * Elevation: -80.5 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: (SAMBA) * Basis: * Method/Device: MultiCorer (MUC)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Event label	Event		Martin, Janis
2	Latitude of event	Latitude		Martin, Janis
3	Longitude of event	Longitude		Martin, Janis
4	Elevation of event	Elevation	m	Martin, Janis
5	DEPTH, sediment/rock	Depth sed	m	Martin, Janis		Geocode
6	Gravel	Gravel	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
7	Sand	Sand	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
8	Mud	Mud	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
9	Size fraction 64-32 mm, very coarse gravel, pebble	64-32 mm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
10	Size fraction 63-20 mm, coarse gravel	63-20 mm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
11	Size fraction 16-8 mm, medium gravel	16-8 mm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
12	Size fraction 8.0-4.0 mm, fine gravel	8-4 mm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
13	Size fraction 4.0-2.0 mm, very fine gravel, granule	4-2 mm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
14	Size fraction 2.000-1.000 mm, (-1.0)-0.0 phi, very coarse sand	2-1 mm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
15	Size fraction 1.000-0.500 mm, 0.0-1.0 phi, coarse sand	1-0.5 mm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
16	Size fraction 0.500-0.250 mm, 1.0-2.0 phi, medium sand	500-250 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
17	Size fraction 0.250-0.125 mm, 2.0-3.0 phi, fine sand	250-125 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
18	Size fraction 0.125-0.063 mm, 3.0-4.0 phi, very fine sand	125-63 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
19	Size fraction 0.063-0.032 mm, 4.0-5.0 phi, very coarse silt	63-32 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
20	Size fraction 0.032-0.016 mm, 5.0-6.0 phi, coarse silt	32-16 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
21	Size fraction 0.016-0.008 mm, 6.0-7.0 phi, medium silt	16-8 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
22	Size fraction 0.008-0.004 mm, 7.0-8.0 phi, fine silt	8-4 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
23	Size fraction 0.004-0.002 mm, 8.0-9.0 phi, very fine silt	4-2 µm	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13
24	Clay	Clay	%	Martin, Janis	Laser diffraction particle-size analyzer, Beckman Coulter, LS13

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Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

760 data points

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