Oxygen profiles, pore-water- and solid phase data of surface sediments retrieved from two fjords in South Georgia, sub-Antarctica

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During the PS133/2 research cruise with the German research vessel RV Polarstern in the austral summer of November and December 2022 into the Southern Ocean, sediment samples were collected using a multicorer at five stations and a handheld gravity corer (UWITEC) from a zodiac at two additional stations across two fjords in South Georgia: King Haakon Bay and Cumberland Bay. The main objective was to determine and quantify the different sources and transport pathways of iron from two fjords of South Georgia into the open ocean. A high resolution O2 profile was measured in five MUC cores using a fibre-optic oxygen microsensor (Pyroscience) to determine the oxygen penetration depths. The MUC cores were sliced into 1-2 cm segments down to a maximum depth of 30 cm. Adjacent sediment cores were cut at the same depth resolution. Pore-water analyses were conducted for nitrite (NO2-), nitrate (NO3-), silicate (SiO2), phosphate (PO4³-), ammonium (NH4+), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), chloride (Cl-), sulfate (SO42-), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), alkalinity, dissolved Fe (dFe) and dissolved manganese (dMn). Surface sediment pore-water samples were analyzed for their iron isotopic composition (δ56Fe) at 6 stations. For the determination of an age model and the porosity, at five stations excess 210Pb (210PbXS) was measured using freeze-dried sediment samples. At six stations 0.5 M HCl extractions were performed to determine the 0.5 M HCl-extractable Fe(III)s (bound in poorly crystalline Fe-oxides) and Fe(II)s (bound in acid volatile sulfide). Samples of the same stations were used to obtain sulfate reduction rates (SRR).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.986658
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.986658
Provenance
Creator Ebner, Berenice ORCID logo; Henkel, Susann ORCID logo; Kraal, Peter ORCID logo; Müller, Daniel ORCID logo; Köster, Male (ORCID: 0000-0002-0175-546X); Staubwasser, Michael ORCID logo; Laufer-Meiser, Katja; Kattein, Laura; Geibert, Walter ORCID logo; Kasten, Sabine ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
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 Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 3 datasets
Discipline Biogeochemistry; Biospheric Sciences; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-37.568W, -54.401S, -36.143E, -54.065N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-11-28T22:16:15Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-12-07T23:33:35Z