IODP Expedition 392 Natural gamma radiation

• Main Authors: Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele, Bohaty, Steven M., Childress, Laurel B., Archontikis, Odysseas A., Batenburg, Sietske J., Bijl, Peter K., Burkett, Ashley M., Cawthra, Hayley C., Chanda, Pratyusha, Coenen, Jason J., Dallanave, Edoardo, Davidson, Peter C., Doiron, Kelsey E., Geldmacher, Jörg, Gürer, Derya, Haynes, Shannon J., Herrle, Jens O., Ichiyama, Yuji, Jana, Debadrita, Jones, Matthew M., Kato, Chie, Kulhanek, Denise K., Li, Juan, Liu, Jia, McManus, James, Minakov, Alexander N., Penman, Donald E., Sprain, Courtney J., Tessin, Allyson C., Wagner, Thomas, Westerhold, Thomas
• Other Authors: International Ocean Discovery Program
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: International Ocean Discovery Program; IODP; JOIDES Resolution; Expedition 392; Site U1579; Site U1580; Site U1581; Site U1582; Algulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate; Earth connections; Climate and ocean change; K/Pg boundary; large igneous province; PETM; LIP; zeolite authigenesis; Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum; igneous sill intrusion; Campanian; Oligocene pelagic carbonates; paleoceanography; African-Southern Ocean Gateway; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/8277776; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8277776

Natural gamma radiation (NGR) data in the ~0.1 to 3.0 MeV range were measured using eight custom-designed sodium iodide (thallium) [NaI(Tl)] detectors arranged along the core measurement axis at 20 cm intervals. The NGR system uses layers of passive shielding (lead) and active shielding (plastic scintillators and coincidence electronics) to reduce the cosmic-ray signal for low-count analysis of sediment core sections and to obtain the maximum signal-to-noise ratio. Data are reported on a total counts per second basis and the raw spectral files are available as compressed files for later analysis.