Authigenic neodymium isotope data from deep sea sediment from the Southern Atlantic Ocean back to the the Mid Pleistocene Transition

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We present authigenic neodymium isotope data (εNd) from two sediment cores from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean (SO). The samples were prepared with a weak leach solution and measured with the ThermoFisher Neptuneplus MC-ICPMS at the Institute of Environmental Physics in Heidelberg. Both investigated sites are located south of the modern polar frontal zone within the modern mixing zone of Circumpolar Deep Water and Antarctic Bottom Water. The following data sets extend the data from Hallmaier et al. (2025) (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956277) far back to the Mid Pleistocene Transition. The Nd isotopic data from site ODP 1093 forms a continuous record from 150 ka to 1 Ma with a millennial resolution. It reveals a strong variability synchronous to the ice volume and thus the global climate with radiogenic glacial and unradiogenic interglacial values for the past 30 MIS. The measurements of the sediment from site ODP 1094 cover MIS 11-12 and the time around the 900 ka event. The data shows a transition from an unradiogenic signal of low variability prior to the 900 ka event to a highly variable signal for the time after.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.976654
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956277
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.976654
Provenance
Creator Rückert, Eva M ORCID logo; Hallmaier, Moritz ORCID logo; Frank, Norbert ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID FR1341/16
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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Representation
Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 2 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (5.130W, -53.181S, 5.866E, -49.976N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1998-01-10T16:24:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1998-01-22T12:10:00Z