Foraminiferal assemblages, diversity indices, Loss On Ignition, CaCO₃ and age-model data from sediment core KB22-237-06MC-H from Lurefjorden in western Norway, since ca. 1500 AD

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This dataset contains benthic foraminiferal assemblage data, diversity indices, and geochemical proxy records from sediment core KB22-237-06MC-H (60.824°N, 5.344°E; 300 m water depth), collected during cruise KB22-237 aboard R/V Kristine Bonnevie in February 2022 from Masfjorden, western Norway. The dataset includes benthic foraminiferal counts, relative abundances (%), absolute abundances (individuals g⁻¹ dry sediment), percentages of productivity-related taxa, Shannon–Wiener (H) and Dominance (D) diversity indices, loss-on-ignition (LOI550), and carbonate content (CaCO₃). The sediment record spans ca. the last 500 years, covering the period since ca. 1500 AD. The data were collected to reconstruct long-term changes in primary productivity, organic matter flux, and benthic ecosystem functioning in Masfjorden, and to investigate the response of a fjord strongly influenced by Atlantic Water to regional climatic variability over the past five centuries. Sediment cores were retrieved using a multicorer system and subsampled at 0.5 cm intervals. Benthic foraminifera were identified and counted in the >63 μm sediment fraction following standard micropaleontological procedures, while organic matter and carbonate contents were determined using loss-on-ignition analyses. The dataset provides a long-term record of benthic environmental variability and forms the basis for reconstructing productivity changes and ecosystem responses in western Norwegian fjords.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.996108
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.996108
Provenance
Creator Ferraro, Mattia (ORCID: 0009-0000-7411-800X); Risebrobakken, Bjørg ORCID logo; Polovodova Asteman, Irina ORCID logo; Haflidason, Haflidi; Tisserand, Amandine ORCID logo; Moros, Matthias; Weiner, Agnes K M ORCID logo; Sagen, S. Torunn; Darelius, Elin ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
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 11302 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (5.344 LON, 60.824 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-02-05T00:00:00Z