Carbon isotopes composition of otoliths from surface samples of the Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean

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Fossil fish otoliths were collected in surface sediments (0 to 1 cm) from the Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean, recovered with a giant box corer during the R/V Polarstern Expedition PS87 of 2014. Carbon isotopic measurements of 22 specimens were performed in 2022, at the 14C laboratory of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany, with a MICADAS-mini carbon dating system. Results show a wide range of 14C-ages from ~44 to 0.4 ka, illustrating the mixing of late Quaternary fossils at the sediment surface in low sedimentation rate sites of the Arctic Ocean. Significant δ13C-values differences could be identified between pelagic and benthic fish, in accordance with their distinct habitats.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.949186
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.949186
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Creator Hillaire-Marcel, Claude ORCID logo; de Vernal, Anne (ORCID: 0000-0001-5656-724X); Rong, Yufen ORCID logo; Roberge, Philippe; Song, Tengfei ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
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 110 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-44.874W, 81.217S, 141.383E, 88.659N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-08-18T17:44:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-09-25T13:05:00Z