Baseline bulk sediment composition for sediment core SO268/1_37-1 (GC-02) during RV SONNE cruise SO268/1 in the CCZ, Pacific Ocean

• Main Authors: Volz, Jessica B, Lange, Mirko, Koehler, Dennis, Geibert, Walter, Stimac, Ingrid, Kasten, Sabine
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA
• Subjects: Aluminium; error; relative; Area/locality; AWI_MarGeoChem; Barium; Calcium; Chromium; Clarion-Clipperton Fraction Zone; North East Pacific Ocean; Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone; Copper; deep sea mining; deep sea sediment; DEPTH; sediment/rock; GC; GC-02; Geochemical data; Gravity corer; ICP-AES; Thermo Scientific; iCAP 7400; Iron; JPI Oceans - Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining; JPIO-MiningImpact; Lanthanum; Pacific; Alfred Wegener Institute
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.944042

This baseline dataset comprises downcore measurements of the bulk sediment composition for a sediment core (GC) retrieved in the framework of the European collaborative JPI Oceans MiningImpact project onboard R/V SONNE cruise SO268 in 2019. The scientific work during cruise SO268 was part of the second phase of the MiningImpact project (Environmental impacts and risks of deep-sea mining) and is designed to assess the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Pacific Ocean. After performing total acid digestions, the sediments were analyzed using ICP-AES (iCAP 7400, Thermo Scientific) at the Marine Geochemistry Lab, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven.