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<Entry_ID>PANGAEA_995891</Entry_ID>
<Entry_Title>Dissolved major element concentration data from the Black Sea collected during the 2013 Dutch GEOTRACES GA04-N cruise (RV Pelagia, 64PE373)</Entry_Title>
<Data_Set_Citation>
<Dataset_Creator>Han, Yuye; Steiner, Zvi</Dataset_Creator>
<Dataset_Title>Dissolved major element concentration data from the Black Sea collected during the 2013 Dutch GEOTRACES GA04-N cruise (RV Pelagia, 64PE373)</Dataset_Title>
<Dataset_Release_Date>2026-07-08</Dataset_Release_Date>
<Dataset_Publisher>PANGAEA</Dataset_Publisher>
<Data_Presentation_Form>Dataset</Data_Presentation_Form>
<Online_Resource>https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995891</Online_Resource>
</Data_Set_Citation>
<Personnel>
<Role>Investigator</Role>
<First_Name>Yuye</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Han</Last_Name>
<Email>yuyehan@stu.xmu.edu.cn</Email>
</Personnel>
<Discipline>
<Discipline_Name>Earth Science</Discipline_Name>
</Discipline>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Event label</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>Temperature, water</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Salinity</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Lithium/Sodium ratio</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Lithium/Sodium ratio, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Lithium, normalized</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Lithium, normalized, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Potassium/Sodium ratio</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Potassium/Sodium ratio, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Potassium, normalized</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Potassium, normalized, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Magnesium/Sodium ratio</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Magnesium/Sodium ratio, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Magnesium normalized</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Magnesium normalized, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Calcium/Sodium ratio</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Calcium/Sodium ratio, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Calcium normalized</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Calcium normalized, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Strontium/Sodium ratio</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Strontium/Sodium ratio, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Strontium normalized</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Strontium normalized, standard deviation</Detailed_Variable>
</Parameters>
<ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
<Keyword>64PE373</Keyword>
<Keyword>64PE373_10</Keyword>
<Keyword>64PE373_11</Keyword>
<Keyword>64PE373_4</Keyword>
<Keyword>64PE373_7</Keyword>
<Keyword>CTD/Rosette, ultra clean</Keyword>
<Sensor_Name>
<Long_Name>ICP-OES, VARIAN 720-ES</Long_Name>
</Sensor_Name>
<Source_Name>
<Long_Name>Pelagia</Long_Name>
</Source_Name>
<Temporal_Coverage>
<Start_Date>2013-07-17</Start_Date>
<Stop_Date>2013-07-23</Stop_Date>
</Temporal_Coverage>
<Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
<Spatial_Coverage>
<Southernmost_Latitude>41.5718</Southernmost_Latitude>
<Northernmost_Latitude>43.1425</Northernmost_Latitude>
<Westernmost_Longitude>29.1466</Westernmost_Longitude>
<Easternmost_Longitude>39.6746</Easternmost_Longitude>
<Minimum_Depth>9.0 m (DEPTH, water)</Minimum_Depth>
<Maximum_Depth>2136.0 m (DEPTH, water)</Maximum_Depth>
</Spatial_Coverage>
<Project>
<Short_Name>GEOTRACES</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>Global marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes</Long_Name>
</Project>
<Access_Constraints>access rights needed</Access_Constraints>
<Use_Constraints>CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)</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>3060 data points</Distribution_Size>
<Distribution_Format>text/tab-separated-values</Distribution_Format>
</Distribution>
<Summary>This dataset presents dissolved major element to Na ratios (Li/Na, K/Na, Mg/Na, Ca/Na and Sr/Na) and salinity-normalized concentrations for seawater samples collected in the Black Sea in July 2013 during R/V Pelagia cruise 64PE373, as part of the Dutch GEOTRACES GA04-N transect. Samples were collected using a trace-metal-clean CTD system, filtered through 0.2 µm filter cartridges, stored in acid-cleaned low-density polyethylene bottles, and acidified with ultrapure HCl. Major elements were analyzed as ratios to Na by sample-standard bracketing using an Agilent Technologies Varian 720 ICP-OES. Calibration and consistency standards were prepared from different dilutions of an IAPSO seawater salinity standard (batch P157). Conversion from element-to-Na ratios to element concentrations assumes a Na concentration of 468.46 mmol kg−1 at salinity 35 and a constant Na-to-salinity ratio. Salinity-normalized concentrations were calculated for both salinity 35 and salinity 21, with the latter corresponding to the average salinity of the Black Sea. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995891"!</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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Pelagia</URL>
<Description>Pelagia</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/inventories/cruise_inventory/report/13374/</URL>
<Description>64PE373</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Related_URL>
<URL>https://www.geotraces.org/</URL>
<Description>GEOTRACES</Description>
</Related_URL>
<Metadata_Name>DIF</Metadata_Name>
<Metadata_Version>9.4</Metadata_Version>
<DIF_Creation_Date>2026-07-08</DIF_Creation_Date>
<Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2026-08-06</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
</DIF>
