Historic element compositions of benthic foraminifera in sediments from the Helgoland mud area, southern North Sea

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DOI

Here, the Cd/Ca and Pb/Ca ratios in the two benthic foraminifera species Elphidium excavatum and Ammonia tepida are presented in order to assess the impact of enhanced anthropogenic heavy metal input in historical times on these foraminifera. The foraminifera shells were picked from sediment core GeoB 4801-1, that was collected from the Helgoland mud area, German Bight, southern North Sea, during RV Meteor cruise M40/0. The obtained elemental records span the last ~300 years (for the stratigraphy of this core see Boxberg et al. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00592-0). Element compositions were obtained by ICP-MS at the MARUM, Bremen.

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936793
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111112
Related Identifier	IsDocumentedBy https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00592-0
Metadata Access	https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.936793

Provenance
Creator	Hebbeln, Dierk
Publisher	PANGAEA
Publication Year	2021
Funding Reference	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 112807311 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/112807311?context=projekt&task=showDetail&id=112807311& GRK 1598: INTERCOAST - Integrierte Küsten- und Schelfmeerforschung
Rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess	true

Representation
Resource Type	Dataset
Format	text/tab-separated-values
Size	103 data points
Discipline	Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage	(8.037 LON, 54.112 LAT); North Sea