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Major and trace element geochemistry of lower Pliocene marine sediment core samples collected at International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1533 in the Amundsen Sea via ICP-MS. Bulk samples of mud or sandy mud were analyzed to assess sediment provenance using elemental ratios. The geochemical data were collected and analyzed by Olga Libman-Roshal and Sandra Passchier, assisted by Xiaona Li in the ICP-MS analytical work.
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Whole-rock elemental analysis for lower Pliocene marine sediments from IODP Site U1532, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
Major and trace element geochemistry of lower Pliocene marine sediment core samples collected at International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1532 in the Amundsen Sea via ICP-MS. Bulk samples of mud or sandy mud were analyzed to assess sediment provenance using elemental ratios. The geochemical data were collected and analyzed by Ronald Leon and Sandra Passchier, assisted by Jessica Scheinbaum in sample preparations, and Xiaona Li in the ICP-MS analytical work.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2114839
- PAR ID:
- 10603845
- Publisher / Repository:
- Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA)
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Regional (Continents, Oceans) glaciation, paleoceanography, high-latitude
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Other: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
- Location:
- Pacific Ocean, Antarctica; (Latitude:-68.611667; Longitude:-107.528333); (Latitude:-68.611667; Longitude:-107.524444)
- Right(s):
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International [CC-BY-SA-4.0]
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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