Publication Date:
2024-06-12
Description:
This dataset provides annually resolved microfacies data from ICDP core 5017-1-A, retrieved from the deep northern Dead Sea basin in 2010/11, for the last glacial-interglacial transition (ca. 14-13 ka BP). Sediments of the Lisan Formation were investigated between ~94.7 and 91.8 m sediment depth below lake floor (lithozone C2) by continuous thin section microscopy. Thin sections were prepared following the standard procedure by Brauer and Casanova (2001) that was adjusted for salty sediments. Thin section analyses were performed on overlapping large-scale thin sections using a Zeiss Axiolab pol microscope at magnifications of 50-400x. Microfacies analyses included varve counting and measurements of varve and sublayer thickness. The amount of varves in erosional gaps was interpolated and the position of mass flow deposits (MFD) is marked.
Keywords:
CDRILL; Core drilling; Dead Sea; Dead Sea Basin, Israel; DSDDP_5017-1-A; Eastern Mediterranean; ICDP; International Continental Scientific Drilling Program; Lateglacial; microfacies analyses; Paleoclimate; Position; varve chronology; Varve number; Varve thickness; Varve thickness, aragonite sub-layer; Zeiss Axiolab pol microscope
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 2648 data points
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