Alkenone data of sediment core GeoB9508-5 from the continental slope off Senegal

• Main Authors: Niedermeyer, Eva M, Prange, Matthias, Mulitza, Stefan, Mollenhauer, Gesine, Schefuß, Enno, Schulz, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: 293; AGE; Alkenone; unsaturation index UK'37; Calculated; see reference(s); Calculated from C37 alkenones (Prahl & Wakeham; 1987); Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; DEPTH; sediment/rock; GeoB9508-5; Gravity corer (Kiel type); Heptatriaconta-8E,15E,22E-trien-2-one; M65/1; MARUM; Meteor (1986); Methlyheptatriaconta-15E,22E-dien-2-one; Sea surface temperature; annual mean; SL; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.733699; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.733699

In order to investigate a possible link between tropical Northeast (NE) Atlantic sea-surface temperature (SST), Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), and drought in the Sahel during the past 44 thousand years (kyr) we used alkenone paleothermometry and d13C of C. wuellerstorfi of a mar...