TY - JOUR
T1 - A database of paleoceanographic sediment cores from the North Pacific, 1951–2016
AU - Borreggine, Marisa
AU - Myhre, Sarah E.
AU - Mislan, K. Allison S.
AU - Deutsch, Curtis
AU - Davis, Catherine V.
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Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank the University of Washington Library oceanography collection, namely Louise Richards and Maureen Nolan. We also wish to acknowledge the support for this publication provided by the University of Washington Purple and Gold Scholarship, the UW School of Oceanography Lowell K. and Alice M. Barger Endowed Scholarship, the Clarence H. Campbell Endowed Lauren Donaldson Scholarship, the UW College of the Environment Student Travel Grant, and NSF grant OCE-1458967. KAS Mislan was supported by the Washington Research Foundation Fund for Innovation in Data-Intensive Discovery and the Moore/Sloan Data Science
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PY - 2017/9/28
Y1 - 2017/9/28
N2 - We assessed sediment coring, data acquisition, and publications from the North Pacific (north of 30°N) from 1951 to 2016. There are 2134 sediment cores collected by American, French, Japanese, Russian, and international research vessels across the North Pacific (including the Pacific subarctic gyre, Alaskan gyre, Japan margin, and California margin; 1391 cores), the Sea of Okhotsk (271 cores), the Bering Sea (123 cores), and the Sea of Japan (349 cores) reported here. All existing metadata associated with these sediment cores are documented here, including coring date, location, core number, cruise number, water depth, vessel metadata, and coring technology. North Pacific sediment core age models are built with isotope stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, tephrochronology, % opal, color, and lithological proxies. Here, we evaluate the iterative generation of each published age model and provide comprehensive documentation of the dating techniques used, along with sedimentation rates and age ranges. We categorized cores according to the availability of a variety of proxy evidence, including biological (e.g., benthic and planktonic foraminifera assemblages), geochemical (e.g., major trace element concentrations), isotopic (e.g., bulk sediment nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon isotopes), and stratigraphic (e.g., preserved laminations) proxies. This database is a unique resource to the paleoceanographic and paleoclimate communities and provides cohesive accessibility to sedimentary sequences, age model development, and proxies. The data set is publicly available through PANGAEA at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875998.
AB - We assessed sediment coring, data acquisition, and publications from the North Pacific (north of 30°N) from 1951 to 2016. There are 2134 sediment cores collected by American, French, Japanese, Russian, and international research vessels across the North Pacific (including the Pacific subarctic gyre, Alaskan gyre, Japan margin, and California margin; 1391 cores), the Sea of Okhotsk (271 cores), the Bering Sea (123 cores), and the Sea of Japan (349 cores) reported here. All existing metadata associated with these sediment cores are documented here, including coring date, location, core number, cruise number, water depth, vessel metadata, and coring technology. North Pacific sediment core age models are built with isotope stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, tephrochronology, % opal, color, and lithological proxies. Here, we evaluate the iterative generation of each published age model and provide comprehensive documentation of the dating techniques used, along with sedimentation rates and age ranges. We categorized cores according to the availability of a variety of proxy evidence, including biological (e.g., benthic and planktonic foraminifera assemblages), geochemical (e.g., major trace element concentrations), isotopic (e.g., bulk sediment nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon isotopes), and stratigraphic (e.g., preserved laminations) proxies. This database is a unique resource to the paleoceanographic and paleoclimate communities and provides cohesive accessibility to sedimentary sequences, age model development, and proxies. The data set is publicly available through PANGAEA at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875998.
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U2 - 10.5194/essd-9-739-2017
DO - 10.5194/essd-9-739-2017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030557706
SN - 1866-3508
VL - 9
SP - 739
EP - 749
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
IS - 2
ER -