δ18O and δ13C isotope records of SMT16 stalagmite from São Mateus cave, central Brazil

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The δ18O, δ13C, and 87Sr/86Sr records presented here are based on the stalagmite SMT16 collected in São Mateus cave (13.67°S; 46.37°W) located in the Parque Estadual de Terra Ronca (PETER) in central Brazil. This data was presented in the publication by Della Libera et al. (2026) titled "Speleothem-based reconstruction of Holocene changes in monsoonal patterns and environmental conditions in Central Brazil". The chronology of SMT16 was based on U-Th ages, performed at the Geochronology Laboratory at the University of Minnesota (USA) and at the Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University (China), following the methods described in Cheng et al. (2013a). The sampling for the U-Th dating was performed by extracting ~100 mg of powdered carbonate with a dentist drill along the stalagmite growth axis, with a total of 18 U-Th ages. The final chronology was determined by calculating an age-depth model using StalAge (Scholz and Hoffmann, 2011).The δ18O and δ13C analyses were performed at the Laboratory of Stable Isotopes at the Institute of Geoscience of the University of São Paulo (LES-USP) and at the Laboratory of Geodynamic, Geochronological and Environmental Studies of the University of Brasilia (LEGGA – UnB). The notation δ in the results refers to the relative Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite (VPDB) standard with the per mil deviation, with uncertainties on the values of 0.1‰. In total, 1320 samples of powdered carbonate were collected along the stalagmite growth axis with a constant spacing of 0.3 mm between samples using a Sherline Mill device with a 0.1 mm drill bit. This dataset provides an average temporal resolution of 8 years per sample.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.993119
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.105186
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Creator Della Libera, Marcela Eduarda ORCID logo; Cauhy, Julio; Stumpf, Cintia Fernandes; Santos, Roberto Ventura ORCID logo; Cruz, Francisco William ORCID logo; Stríkis, Nicolás Misailidis ORCID logo; Prado, Luciana Figueiredo ORCID logo; Moquet, Jean-Sébastien ORCID logo; Weber, Michael; Orrison, Rebecca ORCID logo; Cheng, Hai ORCID logo; Edwards, R Lawrence ORCID logo; Novello, Valdir Felipe ORCID logo; Vonhof, Hubert B ORCID logo; Scholz, Denis ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003593 Crossref Funder ID 310641/2014-4 ; Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002322 Crossref Funder ID 1715493 ; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID INST 247/889-1 FUGG ; São Paulo Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001807 Crossref Funder ID 2011/12238-6 ; São Paulo Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001807 Crossref Funder ID 2017/50085-3 PIRE-CREATE project
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 3958 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-46.389 LON, -13.689 LAT); São Mateus cave, Parque Estadual de Terra Ronca, central Brazil