Publikationsdatum:
2023-10-14
Beschreibung:
Elemental composition of the sediment core was determined using two XRF techniques. 2,098 samples on the original core section were directly analyzed at a resolution of ~1.2 cm across the interval 17.1-109.4 m with a hand-held XRF analyzer at the core store of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, in Jackson, Mississippi. A further 179 samples were collected every 20-30 cm downcore, spanning the interval 106.8-151.6 m, and were subsequently finely ground and dried before analysis as pressed powders in wax pellets. Pellets were analyzed with a Bruker S8 TIGER XRF spectrometer with an 8 min analysis time, at the School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham. We selected the (Al+Fe+K+Ti)/Ca ratio as a paleoenvironmental indicator of terrigenous-derived versus marine planktonic carbonate sediment 79,80. The two methodologies were cross-calibrated over an interval of overlap between 106.8 and 109.4 m, with a total of ~80 samples, spanning a range of compositions, cross-correlated from both analysis methods.
Schlagwort(e):
Age; AGE; Aluminium; Calcium; DEPTH, sediment/rock; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Iron; MGC; Mossy_Grove_Core; Potassium; Sample ID; Terrigenous/Calcium ratio; Titanium; X-ray fluorescence (XRF), hand-held analyzer; X-ray fluorescence (XRF), pressed powder pellet
Materialart:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 19208 data points
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