Luminescence dating results from the 2023 ASIG sediment core, Prudhoe Dome, Greenland

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We drilled through 509 m of firn and ice at Prudhoe Dome , northwest Greenland to obtain sub-ice material yielding direct evidence for the response of the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet to Holocene warmth. We collected ~3 m of sediment above ~4.4 m of bedrock between 6-6-2023 and 6-7-2023 using the ASIG drill operated by the United States National Science Foundation Ice Drilling Program. We measured luminescence signals from K-feldspars (150-200 micron fraction) at select depths within the sediment column at the University of Texas at Arlington Luminescence Laboratory using single-grain post-infrared infrared stimulated luminescence measured at 225℃ (p-IR IRSL225) measured on a Risø DA-20 luminescence reader. Our dataset contains estimates of equivalent dose (De) from a Minimum Age-3 Model (MAM-3) assuming a 15% overdispersion, the necessary DRAC (Dose Rate Age Calculator; Durcan et al., 2015) input information to calculate dose rates, and our calculated ages. We sent aliquots (1-10 g) of material from four depth intervals, 0-7.5 cm, 8.0–11.2 cm, 81.5–88.0 cm, and 173.3–177.8 cm, for XRF and ICP-MS measurements of radionuclides at SGS Canada (0-7.5 cm) or the Washington State University Peter Hooper GeoAnalytical Lab (8.0–11.2 cm, 81.5–88.0 cm, and 173.3–177.8 cm). We measured water content by measuring the mass of samples before melting and again after melting and after drying sediments in a 50 ℃ oven overnight. Our data record the last time sediments under Prudhoe Dome were exposed to sunlight, necessitating that Prudhoe Dome was absent from our site.References:Durcan, J. A., King, G. E., and Duller, G. A. T.: DRAC: Dose Rate and Age Calculator for trapped charge dating, Quaternary Geochronology, 28, 54-61, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2015.03.012, 2015.).

Dose Rate and Age calculator (DRAC) input: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/dges/research/quaternary/luminescence-research-laboratory/dose-rate-calculator/

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987381
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Creator Walcott-George, Caleb K; Brown, Nathan; Briner, Jason P; Balter-Kennedy, Allie; Young, Nicolás E; Kuhl, Tanner W; Moravec, Elliot; Anandakrishnan, Sridhar; Stevens, Nathan; Keisling, Benjamin A ORCID logo; DeConto, Robert M; Gkinis, Vasileios ORCID logo; MacGregor, Joseph A; Schaefer, Joerg
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1933802 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=1933938 GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1933927 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=1933938 GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1933938 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=1933938 GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock; National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001 Crossref Funder ID 1934477 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=1933938 GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock
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 216 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-70.809 LON, 78.110 LAT); Prudhoe Dome, Greenland
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z