Dissolved trace metals, rare earth elements, nutrients, and Pb isotopes in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

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This dataset contains concentrations of dissolved trace metals (Al, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb), rare earth elements (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu), macro-nutrients (TON, SiOH4 and PO4) and Pb isotope compositions (206Pb/207Pb, 208Pb/206Pb, 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) from two off-shore cruises (carried out in April 2018 and June 2021) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Seawater samples were collected using GO-Flo bottles, filtered (0.2 µm), and acidified to pH<1.8. All samples were pre-concentrated using the NOBIAS chelate PA-1 resin. Trace metal and rare earth elements concentrations were measured using an Agilent 7500cx Magnetic Sector ICP-MS (Benaltabet, T. et al., 2023). Trace metals from the April 2018 cruise were pre-concentrated on a SC-4 DX SeaFAST pico system and analysed using an Element XR High Resolution ICP-MS (Rapp, I. et al., 2017). Pb isotopes were measured using a Thermo-Scientific Neptune Plus Multi Collector ICP-MS (Benaltabet, T. et al., 2020). Macro-nutrient concentrations were measured using a Flow Injection Quik-Chem 8500 Auto-analyzer (Grasshoff, K. et al.(Eds.), 2009).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.982397
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2025.104519
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2020.103895
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007858
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2017.05.008
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.982397
Provenance
Creator Benaltabet, Tal ORCID logo; Lapid, Gil; Alkalay, Ronen; Weinstein, Yishai ORCID logo; Steffens, Tim; Achterberg, Eric Pieter; Torfstein, Adi ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Israel Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003977 Crossref Funder ID 1356/13 ; Israel Science Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003977 Crossref Funder ID 809/24
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2064 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (33.789W, 32.853S, 34.912E, 33.222N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z