U–Th Dating of the RAT Speleothem from Menorca Island (387–209 ka)

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This dataset comprises U-Th dating results from the RAT speleothem. The data were used to reconstruct past climate variability in the western Mediterranean region over the interval 387 to 209 ka, encompassing several glacial terminations (TIV, TIII, and TIIIa). The speleothem was collected in winter 2011 from Murada Cave, located on Menorca Island (39°57′58″N; 3°57′53″E). Element isolation was performed according to Shen et al. (2002) and Cheng et al. (2009). U-Th dating was conducted using a multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS) with parallel ion-counting (Finnigan Neptune) at the University of Minnesota and Xi'an Jiaotong University. Age-depth models were calculated with the StalAge package in R (Scholz and Hoffmann, 2011).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.986506
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-465-2025
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1177840
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2011.02.002
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/S0009-2541(01)00404-1
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Creator Torner, Judit; Cacho, Isabel ORCID logo; Stoll, Heather M ORCID logo; Moreno, Ana (ORCID: 0000-0001-7357-584X); Grimalt, Joan O ORCID logo; Sierro, Francisco Javier (ORCID: 0000-0002-8647-456X); Fornós, Joan J ORCID logo; Cheng, Hai ORCID logo; Edwards, R Lawrence ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Agencia Estatal de Investigación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 Crossref Funder ID CTM2013-48639-C2-1-R OPERA - Forzamiento oceánico en la variabilidad de precipitaciones sobre Iberia y respuesta de ecosistemas marinos al CO2 antropogénico; Agencia Estatal de Investigación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 Crossref Funder ID PID2022-138010OB-I00 MORIA - Extensión e impacto de las aguas mediterráneas en el Atlántico Norte: variabilidad presente y pasada usando isótopos de neodimio
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 820 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (3.951 LON, 39.951 LAT); Murada Cave, Menorca, Spain