1. World Atlas of late Quaternary Foraminiferal Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Ratios
- Author
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Helen C Bostock, Carsten Rühlemann, Michael Langner, Heather J H Johnstone, André Paul, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Aline Govin, Barbara Donner, Ralf Tiedemann, Henning Kuhnert, Robert F Spielhagen, Naomi Harada, Janne Repschläger, Gesine Mollenhauer, Mahyar Mohtadi, Rajeev Saraswat, Stefan Mulitza, Andreas Schmittner, Dirk Nürnberg, Lorraine E. Lisiecki, Enqing Huang, Lars Max, Cristiano Mazur Chiessi, Frank Lamy, Juan Muglia, Torsten Bickert, Elisabeth L. Sikes, Lester Lembke-Jene, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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biology ,Stable isotope ratio ,ISÓTOPOS ,Sediment ,[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences ,15. Life on land ,biology.organism_classification ,law.invention ,Foraminifera ,Oceanography ,Stratigraphy ,13. Climate action ,Benthic zone ,law ,Isotopes of carbon ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,14. Life underwater ,Radiocarbon dating ,Quaternary ,Geology - Abstract
We present a global atlas of downcore foraminiferal oxygen and carbon isotope ratios available at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.936747 (Mulitza et al., 2021). The database contains 2,108 published and previously unpublished stable isotope downcore records with 362,067 stable isotope values of various planktonic and benthic species of foraminifera from 1,265 sediment cores. Age constraints are provided by 6,153 uncalibrated radiocarbon ages from 598 (47 %) of the cores. Each stable isotope and radiocarbon series is provided in a separate netCDF file containing fundamental meta data as attributes. The data set can be managed and explored with the free software tool PaleoDataView. The atlas will provide important data for paleoceanographic analyses and compilations, site surveys, or for teaching marine stratigraphy. The database can be updated with new records as they are generated, providing a live ongoing resource into the future.
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- 2021