Fe concentration and fluxes from the NEEM ice core (Greenland)

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In this dataset, we present Fe, Na and Ca concentration and fluxes retrieved from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core project, covering the last 108 kyrs. The sampling resolution was 110 cm. To ensure an effective dissolution of Fe particles, samples were acidified to pH 1 using Suprapure nitric acid and stored at room temperature for 1 month before the analysis. The ice samples were analyzed with an Inductively Coupled Plasma Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer equipped with a quartz Scott spray chamber. Limits of Detection, calculated as three times the standard deviation of the blanks, were 0.8 µg L-1 for 57Fe, 1 µg L-1 for Ca and 3 µg L-1 for Na. Our results show that Holocene Fe fluxes (0.042 -11.7 kyr b2k, 0.5 mg m-2 yr-1) at the NEEM site were four times lower than the average recorded over the last glacial period (11.7– 108 kyr b2k, 2.0 mg m-2 yr-1), while they were greater during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 14.5 – 26.5 kyr b2k, 3.6 mg m-2 yr-1) and Marine Isotope Stage 4 (MIS 4, 60 - 71 kyr b2k, 5.8 mg m-2 yr-1).

We present Fe, Ca and Na concentration and fluxes. Dating (GICC05modelext-NEEM-1) and accumulation data are from Rasmussen et al., 2013.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930580
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-491-2021
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-2713-2013
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.930580
Provenance
Creator Burgay, Francois ORCID logo; Spolaor, Andrea ORCID logo; Gabrieli, Jacopo; Cozzi, Giulio ORCID logo; Turetta, Clara ORCID logo; Vallelonga, Paul T ORCID logo; Barbante, Carlo ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Funding Reference Agence Nationale de la Recherche https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001665 Crossref Funder ID 07-VULN-09-001 North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling
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 14386 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-51.060 LON, 77.450 LAT); Greenland
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-05-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-08-20T00:00:00Z