Late Quaternary biomarker data from northern Wijdefjorden, Svalbard

• Main Authors: Allaart, Lis, Müller, Juliane, Schomacker, Anders, Rydningen, Tom Arne, Håkansson, Lena M, Kjellman, Sofia Elisabeth, Mollenhauer, Gesine, Forwick, Matthias
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: 2,6,10,14-Tetramethyl-7-(3-methylpent-4-enyl)pentadecane; per unit mass total organic carbon; 2,6,10,14-Tetramethyl-7-(3-methylpent-4-enyl)pentadecane per unit sediment mass; AGE; Branched and isoprenoid tetraether index; Carbon; organic; total; Core; DEPTH; sediment/rock; HH17‐1079‐GC‐MF; Highly branched isoprenoids (Z); triunsatured; Holocene glacial history; Hydroxylated acyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether; Hydroxylated dicyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether; Hydroxylated monocyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether; Ring index of hydroxylated glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers; sea-ice; Sea surface temperature; sea water temperatures; SST; from Ri OH-GDGTs; Lü et al. (2015); Svalbard; Wijdefjorden; Sea ice; Wijdefjord*
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.921582; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921582

TOC, IP25, HBI Z-triene (HBI-III), C46-GDGT data and median ages from a marine sediment core, northern Wijdefjorden, Svalbard. The dataset spans from the last deglaciation until present. It has been used to reconstruct the sea-ice history and sea water temperature variations.