Diatom percentage abundances and sea surface temperature reconstruction for core DA12-11/2-GC01 from the Iceland Basin

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Here, we present datasets of diatom abundance and a diatom-based sea surface temperature reconstruction from the Iceland Basin. The 419.5 cm long marine sediment core DA12-11/2-GC01 was recovered in September 2012 by the Danish R/V Dana using a gravity corer. The core was taken from a location at the northern edge of the Gardar Drift and the eastern edge of the Björn Drift in the Iceland Basin (61.36.536 °N, 20.42.164 °W) at a water depth of 2120 m. Diatoms were analysed at 5 cm intervals over the upper 2 m of core, representing the period 6100-0 cal years BP, with chronological constraints provided by 6 radiocarbon dates. Diatoms were analysed using standard procedures, including the identification and counting of a minimum of 300 diatom per sample, which allowed calculation of the percentage abundances of different species. These abundances were converted into estimates of sea surface temperature using the weight averaging partial least squares transfer function approach.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930972
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.007
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.930972
Provenance
Creator Orme, Lisa C ORCID logo; Miettinen, Arto ORCID logo; Divine, Dmitry V ORCID logo; Husum, Katrine ORCID logo; Pearce, Christof ORCID logo; Van Nieuwenhove, Nicolas ORCID logo; Born, Andreas; Mohan, Rahul; Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2021 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-20.703 LON, 61.609 LAT); Iceland Basin