(Table 1) Color, Fe-C-S chemistry and carbonate content from ODP Sites 172-1062 and 172-1063

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Reflectance spectra collected during ODP Leg 172 were used in concert with solid phase iron chemistry, carbonate content, and organic carbon content measurements to evaluate the agents responsible for setting the color in sediments. Factor analysis has proved a valuable and rapid technique to detect the local and regional primary factors that influence sediment color. On the western North Atlantic drifts, sediment color is the result of primary mineralogy as well as diagenetic changes. Sediment lightness is controlled by the carbonate content while the hue is primarily due to the presence of hematite and Fe2+/Fe3+ changes in clay minerals. Hematite, most likely derived from the Permo-Carboniferous red beds of the Canadian Maritimes, is differentially preserved at various sites due to differences in reductive diagenesis and dilution by other sedimentary components. Various intensities for diagenesis result from changes in organic carbon content, sedimentation rates, and H2S production via anaerobic methane oxidation. Iron monosulfides occur extensively at all high sedimentation sites especially in glacial periods suggesting increased high terrigenous flux and/or increased reactive iron flux in glacials.

Supplement to: Giosan, Liviu; Flood, Roger D; Aller, Robert C (2002): Paleoceanographic significance of sediment color on western North Atlantic drifts: I. Origin of color. Marine Geology, 189(1-2), 25-41

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.764415
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00321-3
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.764415
Provenance
Creator Giosan, Liviu ORCID logo; Flood, Roger D; Aller, Robert C
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2002
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 343 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-74.418W, 28.246S, -57.615E, 33.687N); Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge, North Atlantic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 1997-03-17T22:35:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1997-03-28T23:30:00Z