Sedimentological, mineralogical, and biogeochemical characteristics in the Aleutian Trench and adjacent abyssal plains

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To understand sedimentological, mineralogical and benthic biogeochemical characteristics of the Aleutian Trench study area, datasets of grain size fractions, porosity and density, ratio of quartz to plagioclase, total organic carbon (TOC), δ13C, Δ14C, Chlorophyll a (Chl a), total photopigments, hydrogen and oxygen indices (H- and O-indices), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), ammonium (NH4+), 210Pbex, 137Cs and 210Pbex inventory were analysed from retrieved marine sediment core collected from 13 different stations. The marine sediment cores were retrieved using a Multiple Corer (MUC) during the Aleutian Trench Biodiversity Studies (AleutBio) expedition (RV Sonne, SO293), which took place from 24/07/2022 to 06/09/2022. Retrieved sediment cores were generally sectioned in 1 cm intervals in the upper 10 cm of core depth, 2.5 cm intervals from 10-20 cm and ultimately 5 cm intervals for the remaining core interval. Sediment slices were generally stored at -20 °C until subsequent analysis. All measurements were processed following standardized protocols described in Sindlev et al. (in review) and provides a baseline for investigating benthic processes and depositional characteristics in the study area.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.984610
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Provenance
Creator Sindlev, Marco B; Balmonte, John Paul ORCID logo; Wenzhöfer, Frank; Xiao, Wenjie (ORCID: 0000-0002-4734-683X); Stief, Peter (ORCID: 0000-0002-6355-150X); Oguri, Kazumasa (ORCID: 0000-0002-1695-455X); Tsuchiya, M; Yokoyama, Yusuke ORCID logo; Rudra, Arka; Canfield, Donald E; Sanei, Hamed ORCID logo; Brandt, Angelika ORCID logo; Glud, Ronnie N (ORCID: 0000-0002-7069-893X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Danish National Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001732 Crossref Funder ID DNRF145 Danish Center for Hadal Research, HADAL
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 5631 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-170.478W, 50.632S, -161.214E, 53.600N); North Pacific Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-08-02T13:49:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-08-30T16:47:00Z