Compilation of 231Protactinium/230 Thorium excess ratios in various surface sediment samples from the South Atlantic

• Main Authors: Walter, Hans-Jürgen, Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M, Francois, Roger
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1999
• Subjects: AWI_MarGeoChem; compiled data; Depth; bottom/max; top/min; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Marine Geochemistry @ AWI; MULT; Multiple investigations; Protactinium-231/Thorium-230 excess; standard deviation; Reference/source; Sample code/label; see reference(s); SFB261; South Atlantic in Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Budget and Currents; SURWalter1999; Pacific; Southern Ocean; Weddell; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.55674; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.55674

In large areas of the world's oceans, there is a relationship between the mass flux of particulate matter and the unsupported 231Pa/230Th (xs231Pa/xs230Th) activity ratio of recent sediments. This observation forms the basis for using the xs231Pa/xs230Th ratio as a proxy for past changes in exp...