Soil-, fluvial-, plant- and marine derived organic carbon from surface sediments (0-2 cm) from the northern Gulf of Mexico

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This dataset contains the bulk sediment parameters (total organic carbon (TOC), carbon nitrogen ratio (C/N), δ13C), lipid biomarker (branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs), crenarchaeol, long-chain diols, long-chain n-alkanes, alkenones, sterols) and palynological (dinoflagellate cysts, pollen) content of 20 surface sediments (0-2 cm) from the northern Gulf of Mexico, near the Mississippi and Atchafalaya river mouths. Samples were retrieved from three land-sea transects; (1) offshore the Mississippi river, (2) offshore the Atchafalaya river and (3) on the 20 m isobar on the Louisiana shelf, during a research cruise in February 2020. Samples were analysed on their organic carbon composition, which was divided into soil-, fluvial- and plant-derived terrestrial organic carbon, and marine produced organic carbon, to investigate if the composition and quality of the terrestrial carbon had an influence on their dispersal patterns.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944838
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-663-2023
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.944838
Provenance
Creator Yedema, Yord ORCID logo; Sangiorgi, Francesca ORCID logo; Sluijs, Appy ORCID logo; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ORCID logo; Peterse, Francien ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 820 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-94.135W, 25.744S, -89.173E, 29.162N); Gulf of Mexico
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-02-06T12:56:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-02-16T12:56:41Z