231Pa/230Th ratios, Uranium isotopes and biogenic Opal concentrations of five North Atlantic sediment cores

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To examine the influence of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) on 231Pa/230Th in the North Atlantic from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the Holocene, we analyzed radioisotopes (230Th, 231Pa, 232Th, 234U, and 238U) in sediment samples from five core sites (IODP U1313, MSM58-13-2, MSM58-28-4, SU90-03 and ODP 983). From these measurements, we calculated 231Pa/230Th ratios and mass fluxes. The isotope analyses were conducted using two instruments: a Thermo Scientific Neptune XT MC-ICP-MS equipped with a retarding potential quadrupole filter at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne and an iCAP TQe ICP-MS at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University. To assess the influence of biogenic opal (bOpal) concentrations on the 231Pa/230Th ratios, we measured bOpal concentrations from the same samples. These measurements followed an automated protocol for dissolved silica analysis using molybdate-blue spectrophotometry, conducted at Heidelberg University. Combined with the radioisotope data, biogenic opal fluxes were calculated.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.993370
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Creator Gerber, Lukas ORCID logo; Lippold, Jörg ORCID logo; Repschläger, Janne ORCID logo; Friedrich, Oliver ORCID logo; Testorf, Pierre; Ehnis, Manuel (ORCID: 0009-0007-6425-122X); Süfke, Finn ORCID logo; Blaser, Patrick ORCID logo; Pöppelmeier, Frerk ORCID logo; Jaccard, Samuel L ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 277128673 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/277128673?context=projekt&task=showDetail&id=277128673 Quantification of Past Ocean Dynamics; Horizon Europe https://doi.org/10.13039/100018693 Crossref Funder ID 101065424 https://doi.org/10.3030/101065424 Quantitative reconstruction of past seawater oxygen concentrations (OxyQuant); Horizon Europe https://doi.org/10.13039/100018693 Crossref Funder ID 101137601 doi:10.3030/101137601 Climate Tipping Points: Uncertainty-aware quantification of Earth system tipping potential from observations and models and assessment of associated climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic impacts (ClimTip); Swiss National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001711 Crossref Funder ID 111588 https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/111588 Quantifying changes in the rate of North Atlantic Deep and Intermediate Water formation associated with abrupt climate changes during the late Quaternary; Swiss National Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001711 Crossref Funder ID 206021_2055399
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 3008 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-35.536W, 38.583S, -23.641E, 60.403N); North Atlantic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-09-24T12:05:00Z