Major and trace element concentrations of sediments from the IODP Exp302 sites

• Main Authors: Martinez, Nahysa C, Murray, Richard W, Dickens, Gerald Roy, Kölling, Martin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program / International Ocean Discovery Program; IODP; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Laptev Sea; Kara Sea; laptev
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.787157; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787157

We analyzed a suite of sediment samples recovered in the central Arctic Ocean for major, trace, and rare earth elements in order to assess changes in terrigenous source material throughout the Cenozoic. The terrigenous component consists of two end-members. Input from a shale-like composition domina...