Fluor and opal in surface sediment from the Bransfield Strait (Table 1)

The influence of biogenic opal sediment input (mainly diatom skeletons) on the fluorine budget of marine sediments will be shown for 24 sampling stations of the antarctic regions of Bransfield Strait, Powell Basin, South Orkney Plateau and northwestern Weddell Sea. 4 bulk samples, one from each sedimentation area, contain 9 to 28 wt.-% of biogenic opal , the clay fraction of the 24 samples investigated have 2 to 82 wt.-%. The fluorine concentration in the amorphous biogenic component is 15 ppm. 300 to 800 ppm of fluorine were measured in the clay fractions, 330 to 920 ppm in their lithogenic components. Biogenic opal causes a decrease in fluorine concentration of the sediment by a considerable amount: 6 to 56 % relative to the clay fraction, due to the proportions involved. Biogenic opal is therefore taken into account as a 'diluting' factor for the fluorine budget in marine sediments.

Supplement to: Matthies, Dietmar; Troll, Georg (1987): The importance of biogenic opal sediment input for the fluorine chemistry of Antarctic marine sediments (Bransfield Strait and Weddell Sea). Polarforschung, 57(1-2), 115-121

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.51463
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.29586.d001
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.51463
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Creator Matthies, Dietmar; Troll, Georg
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1987
Funding Reference Fourth Framework Programme https://doi.org/10.13039/100011105 Crossref Funder ID MAS3970141 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/MAS3970141 Silicon Cycling in the World Ocean
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Representation
Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 116 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-61.787W, -63.960S, -44.068E, -60.602N); King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula; Low Island; Elephant Island; South Orkney; Weddell Sea; Powell Basin; Joinville Island; Bransfield Strait
Temporal Coverage Begin 1983-11-26T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1983-12-20T00:00:00Z