Dinoflagellate cysts of sediment core PO287-26-1B from the Tagus River

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The Iberian Margin, located in the mid-latitude North Atlantic at the western edge of Europe, is a key region for reconstructing past climate and oceanographic variability. As part of the PTDC/CTA-CLI/2884/2021 ICW3P project, this study presents a dinoflagellate cyst record from an inner-shelf sediment core collected west of the Tagus River mouth (core POS-26B). The western Portuguese margin represents the northern limit of the Canary Current upwelling system, which is characterized by seasonal, wind-driven upwelling from May to September.The gravity core was retrieved during the Poseidon cruise PO287 in 2002 and provides a high-resolution dataset covering the last millennium, from the Little Ice Age to present-day. The dataset includes raw counts of dinoflagellate cysts, distinguishing heterotrophic from autotrophic taxa, together with depth information for each sample. 16 samples have been analysed using a microscope were analyzed for their palynological contents using a transmitted light microscope at 500× to 1,000× magnification.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.989570
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.989570
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Creator Zorzi, Coralie ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory https://ror.org/04xkqms46 ROR PINFRA/22157/2016-EMSO-PT ; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 Crossref Funder ID 2022.03976.CEECIND/CP1729/CT0001 doi:10.54499/2022.03976.CEECIND/CP1729/CT0001 Land-Sea dynamics in East Asia: Deciphering the impact of high-latitude versus tropical forcing (CHUVA); Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 Crossref Funder ID UID/04326/2025 ; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 Crossref Funder ID UID/PRR/04326/2025 ; Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 Crossref Funder ID LA/P/0101/2020 CCMAR LA
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 976 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-9.364 LON, 38.558 LAT); Portuguese Margin