Clay mineralogy from sediment core MD03-2611 (South Australian margin, AUSCAN cruise)

• Main Authors: Gingele, Franz, De Deckker, Patrick, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: AUSCAN; Australia; Benthic foraminifera; Canyons; Chlorite; Clay; Clay/Silt ratio; clay minerals; DEPTH; sediment/rock; GC; Grain size; sieving/settling tube; Gravity corer; Illite; Kaolinite; Marion Dufresne (1995); MD032611G; MD03-2611G; MD131; Quaternary; sediment archives; Silt; Silt/clay ratio; Smectite; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.960587; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.960587

The data presents sedimentological data (relative percentages of silt, clay, together with smectite, illite, kaolinite, and chlorite relative percentages) from gravity core MD03-2611. The sedimentological data was obtained by Dr. Franz Gingele and first published in Gingele et al. (2004) but was not yet freely accessible. The 11.97 m long core MD03-2611 was collected during the AUSCAN cruise in 2003 on-board the research vessel Marion Dufresne II (Hill and De Deckker, 2004; https://doi.org/10.17600/3200090). It was retrieved from a small plateau south of Kangaroo Island at 2420 m depth (36°43.80'S, 136°32.90'E) facing the mouth of the Murray River. The datasets cover the last 94 ka and have been used to understand how deep-sea benthic environments respond to changes occurring within surface waters and on land.