X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) data obtained from MSM101_44-3

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Gravity core MSM101_44-3 was recovered from the St. Anns Basin on the northeastern Scotian Shelf (45°46.651′N, 58°31.967′W) at 274 m water depth during expedition MSM101 (RV Maria S. Merian). The core was sectioned into 1 m segments, split into working and archive halves, and subsampled for sedimentological analyses. Sediments consist of organic-rich, hemipelagic silty clays with varying degrees of bioturbation. Elemental composition of the bulk sediment was determined on archive halves using an Avaatec XRF core scanner. Measurements were performed at 10 kV and 30 kV with standard reference materials (SARM4, JGa-1, JR-1, KGa-1) to ensure instrument stability. For mineralogical analyses, 40 freeze-dried and homogenized samples were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (Bruker AXS D8 Discover), and quantitative mineral abundances were obtained using Rietveld refinement with HighScore Plus and the ICSD database. Estimated uncertainties for mineral abundances are ±10%. These datasets provide continuous elemental and mineralogical information of the Scotian Shelf sediments, supporting paleoenvironmental, sedimentological, and geochemical studies.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.990261
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.267.01.03
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.48433/cr_msm101
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.990261
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Creator Kolling, Henriette Marie (ORCID: 0000-0003-4198-941X); Schneider, Ralph R ORCID logo; Kienast, Markus; Kienast, Stephanie S ORCID logo; Matzerath, Peter ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID GPF20-1-039 MSM101 NOVAMAR
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 941 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-58.662 LON, 45.803 LAT); North Atlantic Ocean