ALBERT

Description: Multibeam bathymetry raw data using the ship's own Kongsberg EM 710 multibeam echosounder was almost continuously recorded during RV METEOR cruise M123. Data was recorded on 21 days between 2016-02-05 and 2016-02-25. This dataset mostly contains an elongated transit survey parallel to the South African coastline and a survey of the coastal area of Mozambique. The approximate average depth of the entire dataset is around 500m. During data acquisition the Kongsberg EM 122 multibeam echosounder was occasionally switch on simultaneously, thus interference between both systems may have occurred during the survey. The data are archived at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) and provided to PANGAEA database for data curation and publication. The complete record of ancillary sound velocity profiles (SVP) from the cruise archived at the BSH are added to this dataset. These individual SVPs files however could not be clearly related to any event (ship's log entry), therefore position and datetime of SVP data acquisition is rather uncertain. Data analysis of the raw multibeam data revealed that SVP occasionally has been changed during the cruise. This publication is conducted within the efforts of the German Marine Research Alliance in the core area "Data management and Digitalization" (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung, DAM). Data are unprocessed and therefore may contain incorrect depth measurements (artifacts) without further processing. Data can be processed e.g. with the open source software package MB-System (Caress, D. W., and D. N. Chayes, MB-System: Mapping the Seafloor, http://www.mbari.org/products/research-software/mb-system/, 2021).

Description: Terrestrial signals in marine sediment archives are often used for paleoclimatic reconstructions. It is therefore important to know the origin of the different terrestrial sedimentary components. The proximity to a river mouth is often the key location to determine the source. Especially in regions with strong ocean currents, such an assumption might,however, lead to considerable misinterpretations. To investigate the source of various terrigenous sediment fractions in southeastern Africa, a region with strong sediment redistribution, we have performed an extensive comparison between terrestrial material (pollen, plant lipids, detrital modes and heavy minerals as well as bulk inorganic geochemical composition) from potential source regions and the same components in the adjacent coastal and continental shelf sediments. Onshore the proxy‐indicators reflect small‐scale diversity in sampling locations and associated environments (riverbank sediments, flood deposits, suspension loads and soils). Nevertheless, the overall trends reflect significant environmental gradients along a SW to NE transect. We note a general comparability of the studied parameters between the continental and marine sediments regardless of their specific differences in transport and depositional characteristics. We propose that the influence of the Agulhas Current affects sediment deposition and distribution only seaward of the mid‐shelf and that pockets of sediment remain preserved in the lee of coastal protrusions where they are protected from erosion. This study provides the essential prerequisite to allow the attribution of temporal variations of compositional changes in marine sediment cores to environmental changes in southeastern Africa.

Description: Multibeam bathymetry raw data using the ship's own Kongsberg EM 122 multibeam echosounder was almost continuously recorded during RV METEOR cruise M123. Data was recorded on 22 days between 2016-02-05 and 2016-02-26. This dataset mostly contains an elongated transit survey parallel to the South African coastline and a survey of the coastal area of Mozambique. The approximate average depth of the entire dataset is around 1200m. During data acquisition the Kongsberg EM 712 multibeam echosounder was occasionally switch on simultaneously, thus interference between both systems may have occurred during the survey. The data are archived at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) and provided to PANGAEA database for data curation and publication. The complete record of ancillary sound velocity profiles (SVP) from the cruise archived at the BSH are added to this dataset. These individual SVPs files however could not be clearly related to any event (ship's log entry), therefore position and datetime of SVP data acquisition is rather uncertain. Data analysis of the raw multibeam data revealed that SVP occasionally has been changed during the cruise. This publication is conducted within the efforts of the German Marine Research Alliance in the core area "Data management and Digitalization" (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung, DAM). Data are unprocessed and therefore may contain incorrect depth measurements (artifacts) without further processing. Data can be processed e.g. with the open source software package MB-System (Caress, D. W., and D. N. Chayes, MB-System: Mapping the Seafloor, http://www.mbari.org/products/research-software/mb-system/, 2021).