Rare earth elements and dissolved neodymium isotopic composition in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean during SONNE cruise SO298 (GEOTRACES GP11)

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This dataset presents rare earth element concentrations ([REE]) and dissolved radiogenic neodymium (Nd) isotopes from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean collected during the GEOTRACES GP11 expedition aboard the German RV SONNE (SO298). The cruise took place from April to June 2023 between Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Townsville (Australia), with sampling stations extending from Ecuador to Papua New Guinea along the equator.Seawater samples for [REE] and Nd isotopes were collected using Niskin bottles mounted on a stainless steel CTD (SS-CTD) rosette or via a trace-metal-clean underway towed-fish system. Samples for [REE] were pre-concentrated offline using a SeaFAST system and analyzed by a Thermo Element XR ICP-MS coupled with a CETAC Aridus 2 desolvating nebulizer to reduce oxide formation. Dissolved Nd isotopes were pre-concentrated onboard by adsorption onto Fe hydroxide precipitates and, following purification in the home laboratory, measured with a Neptune Plus Multicollector-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.992803
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.992803
Provenance
Creator Liguori, Bianca T P (ORCID: 0000-0001-9555-824X); Hathorne, Ed C ORCID logo; Singh, Naman Deep; Zhang, Zhouling ORCID logo; Steiner, Zvi ORCID logo; Achterberg, Eric Pieter; Frank, Martin ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Education and Research https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03G0298A GEOTRACES-GP11
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 8913 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-81.878W, -2.006S, 157.854E, 0.005N); South Pacific Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-01-05T23:15:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-10-05T08:30:00Z