Changes in planktic foraminiferal shell chemistry and size normalized weight at three sites in the western Mediterranean Sea, and complementary age model, sea surface temperature and biomarker data ...

• Main Authors: Pallacks, Sven, Ziveri, Patrizia, Schiebel, Ralf, Vonhof, Hubert B, Rae, James W B, Littley, Eloise, García-Orellana, Jordi, Langer, Gerald, Grelaud, Michaël, Martrat, Belén
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: Aage depth model; anthropogenic; Anthropogenic impacts; boron isotopes; Common Era; marine surface production; Mediterranean Sea; Ocean acidification; Pb; planktic foraminifera; Planktic Foraminifers; stable carbon isotopes δ13C; Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate MedSeA
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.955024; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.955024

Three high resolution multicore records have been collected at three sites in the western Mediterranean with a MC400-Multicorer system during the MedSeA cruise (Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a changing climate) on 2 May to 2 June 2013 onboard the R/V Angeles Álvarino. Core MedSeA-S3-c1 was retrieved in the Alboran basin (Lat. 36.0746° N, Long. 04.11040° W) at a water depth of 1137 m, with a core length of 33 cm. Core MedSeA-S23-c1 was recovered at a water depth of 1156 m in the Balearic basin offshore Barcelona (Lat. 41.1121° N, Long. 2.38200° E) with a core length of 43 cm. MedSeA-S7-c2 was collected at the Strait of Sicily (Lat. 37.7080° N, Long. 12.40553° E) at a water depth of 263 m, with a core length of 46.5 cm. All three cores have been analyzed for changes in size normalized weight (SNW) and stable carbon isotopes (δ13C), measured in planktic foraminiferal clacite shells of the two species Globigerina bulloides and Globigerinoides elongatus. Boron (δ11B) isotopes have been measured in tests of ...