Foraminiferal δ¹⁸O, Mg/Ca, and paleotemperatures for 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 cruise MSM101 (June 2021) with RV Maria S. Merian. The core was sectioned into 1 m segments, split into working and archive halves, and subsampled at 5 cm intervals for sediment analyses. Planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (>150 µm fraction) were analyzed for Mg/Ca ratios and stable oxygen isotopes (δ¹⁸Oc). Mg/Ca measurements were performed using ICP-OES following oxidative and silicate-removal cleaning protocols, with quality control via reference material (ECRM 752-1). SSTMg/Ca was calculated using established calibrations, corrected for minor diagenetic effects. δ¹⁸Oc was measured on 25 specimens per sample using a Finnigan MAT 253 mass spectrometer, converted to δ¹⁸O of seawater (δ¹⁸Osw), corrected for global ice volume, and used to estimate past salinity (SSS). The reconstructed temperatures and δ¹⁸Osw primarily reflect spring–summer subsurface conditions (~20–80 m water depth) on the Scotian Shelf, supporting paleoceanographic studies of Holocene and late-glacial sedimentary environments.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.990260
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Creator Kolling, Henriette Marie (ORCID: 0000-0003-4198-941X); Schneider, Ralph R ORCID logo; Gottschalk, Julia ORCID logo; Frick, Daniel A 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 669 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-58.662 LON, 45.803 LAT); North Atlantic Ocean