Dataset: Inorganic Sediment Chemistry
Deployment: TT013

Inorganic Sediment Chemistry from USJGOFS EqPac TT013 piston cores

Principal Investigator:

Margaret Leinen (Florida Atlantic University, FAU)

Richard W Murray (Boston University, BU)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Cynthia L. Chandler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

13 May 2013

Deployment Synonyms:

EqPac Benthic Survey

Version Date:

2013-05-13

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/455978/data

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Description

Accumulation of Fe, calcium carbonate (CaCO3), Ba, Al, P, Ti and ratios from Piston Cores (PC) 18, 32, 83, and 114.

Relevant references:

Links between iron input and opal deposit in the Pleistocene equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Supplemental Information: Links between iron input and opal deposit in the Pleistocene equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Murray R. W., Knowlton C., Leinen M., Mix A. C., and Polsky C. H., 2000, Export production and carbonate dissolution in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean over the past 1 Ma. Paleoceanography, 15, 570-592.

Murray R. W., Leinen M., Murray D. W., Mix A. C, and Knowlton, C. W., 1995, Terrigenous Fe input and biogenic sedimentation in the glacial and interglacial Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 9, 667-684.

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-9301097	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

Piston Corer

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Piston Corer

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/51/

Generic Description:

The piston corer is a type of bottom sediment sampling device. A long, heavy tube is plunged into the seafloor to extract samples of mud sediment. A piston corer uses a "free fall" of the coring rig to achieve a greater initial force on impact than gravity coring. A sliding piston inside the core barrel reduces inside wall friction with the sediment and helps to evacuate displaced water from the top of the corer. A piston corer is capable of extracting core samples up to 90 feet in length.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
event	event number from event log	dimensionless	event
sta	sta number from event log	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees	lat
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees	lon
depth_w	depth of water	meters	depth_w
core_type	core type	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
depth_core	depth in core, mid-point of interval sampled	centimeters	no_bcodmo_term
CaCO3	Calcium Carbonate	weight per cent	no_bcodmo_term
d18O	Oxygen Isotope		d18O
Al	Al (Aluminum)	parts per million	Al
P	P (Phosphorus)	parts per million	P
Ti	Ti (Titanium)	parts per million	Ti
Ba	Ba (Barium)	parts per million	Ba
Ba_Ti_ratio	Barium to Titanium ratio	parts per million	Ba_Ti_ratio
Al_Ti_ratio	Aluminum Titanium ratio	parts per million	Al_Ti_ratio
P_Ti_ratio	Phorphorus to Tin ratio	parts per million	P_Ti_ratio

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Deployment: TT013

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