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Leonardo</creatorName><givenName>Leonardo</givenName><familyName>Tamborrino</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-3523-2704</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/04ers2y35">MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University Bremen</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Wang, Yi</creatorName><givenName>Yi</givenName><familyName>Wang</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0001-5633-3312</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/03zbnzt98">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology &amp; Geophysics</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Yang, Kiho</creatorName><givenName>Kiho</givenName><familyName>Yang</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" 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Sciences</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Yu, Tiantian</creatorName><givenName>Tiantian</givenName><familyName>Yu</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0003-3257-612X</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/0220qvk04">Shanghai Jiao Tong University</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName>Zhang, Guoliang</creatorName><givenName>Guoliang</givenName><familyName>Zhang</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0001-9474-7962</nameIdentifier><affiliation affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR" affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/034t30j35">Chinese Academy of Sciences</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>Core summary for IODP Hole 393-U1558F</title></titles><publisher>PANGAEA</publisher><publicationYear>2026</publicationYear><subjects><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Sample code/label</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Date/time end</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Section Top in meters below surface</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Section Bot in meters below surface</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Drilled</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Depth, sediment/rock, top/minimum</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Depth, sediment/rock, bottom/maximum</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Core length</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Recovery</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Number of sections</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Drilling rate</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Core drilling</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">IODP Depth Scale Terminology</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">According to Coggon et al. 2024</subject><subject subjectScheme="Campaign">Exp393</subject><subject subjectScheme="Basis">Joides Resolution</subject><subject subjectScheme="Project">Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)</subject></subjects><dates><date dateType="Collected">2022-06-26T05:15:00/2022-06-28T00:35:00</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Dataset</resourceType><relatedIdentifiers><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.106.2024</relatedIdentifier><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.102.2024</relatedIdentifier><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.101.2024</relatedIdentifier><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.14379/iodp.proc.390393.2024</relatedIdentifier></relatedIdentifiers><sizes><size>285 data points</size></sizes><formats><format>text/tab-separated-values</format></formats><rightsList><rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" schemeURI="https://spdx.org/licenses/" rightsIdentifierScheme="SPDX" rightsIdentifier="CC-BY-4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">The South Atlantic Transect (SAT) is a multidisciplinary scientific ocean drilling experiment designed to investigate the evolution of the ocean crust and overlying sediments across the western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This project comprises four International Ocean Discovery Program expeditions: fully staffed Expeditions 390 and 393 (April–August 2022) built on engineering preparations during Expeditions 390C and 395E (October–December 2020 and April–June 2021, respectively) that took place without science parties during the height of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Through operations along a crustal flow line at ~31°S, the SAT recovered complete sedimentary sections and the upper ~40–340 m of the underlying ocean crust formed at a slow- to intermediate-spreading rate at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge over the past ~61 My. The sediments along this transect were originally spot cored more than 50 years ago during Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 3 (December 1968–January 1969) to help verify the theories of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. Site U1558 (30°53.7814′S, 24°50.4822′W; proposed Site SATL-43A) is in the central South Atlantic Ocean at a water depth of ~4334 meters below sea level (mbsl) ~1067 km west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on crust that formed at a slow half spreading rate of ~19.5 mm/a (see: Expedition 390/393 summary [Coggon et al., 2024]). With an estimated age of 49.2 Ma, Site U1558 is the second oldest location of the South Atlantic Transect (SAT) campaign (International Ocean Discovery Program [IODP] Expeditions 390C, 395E, 390, and 393).</description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationPoint><pointLongitude>-24.841261</pointLongitude><pointLatitude>-30.896538</pointLatitude></geoLocationPoint></geoLocation><geoLocation><geoLocationPlace>South Atlantic Ocean</geoLocationPlace></geoLocation></geoLocations></resource>