Planktic foraminifers, ice-rafted debris and stable isotopes from three sediment cores along the East/South Greenland margin

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Sediment core GS16-204-22CC-A (58° 02.83 N, 47° 02.36 W, water depth 3160 m) was retrieved at the Eirik drift with R/V G.O. Sars in 2016. The core was sampled every 2 cm between 200 and 530.5 cm with a sample width of 0.5 cm. Bulk sample weights were taken prior to and after freeze-drying. Subsequently, the bulk samples were wet sieving (63 µm-sieve) and the coarse fraction was dry sieved into size fractions 63-106 µm, 106-150 µm, 150-500 µm, 500-1000 µm and > 1mm. Size fraction 150-500 µm was split (max. 4x) for foraminifer and IRD counts and the number was added to numbers counted in size fractions 500-1000 µm and > 1mm (results in >150 µm/g dry sediment). In order to calculate the according fluxes we multiplied the respective concentrations with the bulk mass accumulation rate following Peck et al. (2007). Hereby, a sediment particle, carbonate and water density of 2.650, 2.730 and 1.025 g cm-3 were assumed, respectively. Additionally, the ratio between lithic grains and planktic foraminifers was calculated using the following equation: lithic grains/total entities. Size fraction 150-500 µm was also used for the planktic foraminifer assemblage counts (min. 300 specimens), stable isotope analyses (N. pachyderma, 212-250 μm) and radiocarbon dating (N. pachyderma, 150-500 µm). Altogether eleven samples were dated at Beta Analytic Inc., Miami, US and at W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility of University of California, Irvine, US (KCCAMS/UCI). For the final age model of GS16-204-22CC-A, three different types of control points are combined: two calibrated AMS 14C ages, one tephra layer (North Atlantic Ash Zone II) and seven secondary control points. The secondary control points are based on the synchronization of the planktic d18O and d13C time series of core GS16-204-22CC-A and core PS2644-5 from the Greenland Sea (Voelker & Haflidason, 2015) using the program AnalySeries (Paillard et al., 1996). Consequently, sedimentation rates vary between ~2.5 and 12 cm/ky. Paillard, D., Labeyrie, L., & Yiou, P. (1996). Macintosh program performs time‐series analysis. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 77(39), 379-379. Peck, V. L., Hall, I. R., Zahn, R., Grousset, F., Hemming, S., & Scourse, J. (2007). The relationship of Heinrich events and their European precursors over the past 60ka BP: a multi-proxy ice-rafted debris provenance study in the North East Atlantic. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(7), 862-875. Voelker, A. H., & Haflidason, H. (2015). Refining the Icelandic tephrachronology of the last glacial period–the deep-sea core PS2644 record from the southern Greenland Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 131, 35-62.

Supplement to: Griem, Lisa; Voelker, Antje H L; Berben, Sarah M P; Dokken, Trond; Jansen, Eystein (2019): Insolation and Glacial Meltwater Influence on Sea‐Ice and Circulation Variability in the Northeastern Labrador Sea During the Last Glacial Period. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(11), 1689-1709

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.904065
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003605
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Creator Griem, Lisa ORCID logo; Voelker, Antje H L ORCID logo; Berben, Sarah M P ORCID logo; Dokken, Trond; Jansen, Eystein ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2019
Funding Reference European Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000781 Crossref Funder ID 610055 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/610055 Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 6 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-47.039W, 58.047S, -21.765E, 67.867N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-08-28T00:00:00Z