Dataset is comprised of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) data from sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 382, Site U1534, South Falkland Sediment Drift, 53.18967 S, 58.76083 W (605 m water depth). The sediment cores were collected from 3 holes using the advanced piston corer onboard RV Joides Resolution from site U1534 between 29/03/2019 and 02/04/2019. XRF data was collected using the XRF Core Scanner III (AVAATECH Serial No. 12) at the XRF Core Scanner Lab at the MARUM (Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany), March-May 2021. The data were collected as part of a project aiming to investigate the sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to variability in Pacific-Atlantic connectivity via the 'cold water route'. Dr Victoria Louise Peck was the principle investigator for this project. Funding provided by NERC UKIODP moratorium grant NE/T010908/1

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (less than 2 micrometers) of Pleistocene-Holocene drift sediments recovered at Hole U1532B on the Amundsen Sea continental rise during IODP Exp379 with RV JOIDES Resolution in Jan-Mar 2019. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages (%) both versus expedition number, site number, hole ID, core number, drill core type (H: advanced piston corer system, X: extended core barrel system; R: rotary core barrel system), section number (sect), section half (W: work; A: archive) and depth of the top and bottom of the sample within a section or core catcher (CC) in centimetres (cm) and versus depth below seafloor (CSF-A) in metres (m). The d-values (in Angstrom) and integral breadths (IB, delta 2theta) of the clay minerals smectite and illite as well as the ratios between the areas of the 5 Angstrom and 10 Angstrom peaks of illite are also given. The clay mineral data were generated and analysed by Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof Werner Ehrmann (Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany). Users of this dataset should cite the dataset DOI and acknowledge both the data generators (C.-D. Hillenbrand and W. Ehrmann) and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The work was funded by NERC UK-IODP Moratorium Award NE/T010975/1.

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (less than 2 micrometers) of Pleistocene-Holocene drift sediments recovered at Hole U1532C on the Amundsen Sea continental rise during IODP Exp379 with RV JOIDES Resolution in Jan-Mar 2019. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages (%) both versus expedition number, site number, hole ID, core number, drill core type (H: advanced piston corer system, X: extended core barrel system; R: rotary core barrel system), section number (sect), section half (W: work; A: archive) and depth of the top and bottom of the sample within a section or core catcher (CC) in centimetres (cm) and versus depth below seafloor (CSF-A) in metres (m). The d-values (in Angstrom) and integral breadths (IB, delta 2theta) of the clay minerals smectite and illite as well as the ratios between the areas of the 5 Angstrom and 10 Angstrom peaks of illite are also given. The clay mineral data were generated and analysed by Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof Werner Ehrmann (Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany). Users of this dataset should cite the dataset DOI and acknowledge both the data generators (C.-D. Hillenbrand and W. Ehrmann) and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The work was funded by NERC UK-IODP Moratorium Award NE/T010975/1.

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (less than 2 micrometers) of Pleistocene-Holocene drift sediments recovered at Hole U1533B on the Amundsen Sea continental rise during IODP Exp379 with RV JOIDES Resolution in Jan-Mar 2019. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages (%) both versus expedition number, site number, hole ID, core number, drill core type (H: advanced piston corer system, X: extended core barrel system; R: rotary core barrel system), section number (sect), section half (W: work; A: archive) and depth of the top and bottom of the sample within a section or core catcher (CC) in centimetres (cm) and versus depth below seafloor (CSF-A) in metres (m). The d-values (in Angstrom) and integral breadths (IB, delta 2theta) of the clay minerals smectite and illite as well as the ratios between the areas of the 5 Angstrom and 10 Angstrom peaks of illite are also given. The clay mineral data were generated and analysed by Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof Werner Ehrmann (Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany). Users of this dataset should cite the dataset DOI and acknowledge both the data generators (C.-D. Hillenbrand and W. Ehrmann) and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The work was funded by NERC UK-IODP Moratorium Award NE/T010975/1.

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (less than 2 micrometers) of Pleistocene-Holocene drift sediments recovered at Hole U1532G on the Amundsen Sea continental rise during IODP Exp379 with RV JOIDES Resolution in Jan-Mar 2019. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages (%) both versus expedition number, site number, hole ID, core number, drill core type (H: advanced piston corer system, X: extended core barrel system; R: rotary core barrel system), section number (sect), section half (W: work; A: archive) and depth of the top and bottom of the sample within a section or core catcher (CC) in centimetres (cm) and versus depth below seafloor (CSF-A) in metres (m). The d-values (in Angstrom) and integral breadths (IB, delta 2theta) of the clay minerals smectite and illite as well as the ratios between the areas of the 5 Angstrom and 10 Angstrom peaks of illite are also given. The clay mineral data were generated and analysed by Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof Werner Ehrmann (Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany). Users of this dataset should cite the dataset DOI and acknowledge both the data generators (C.-D. Hillenbrand and W. Ehrmann) and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The work was funded by NERC UK-IODP Moratorium Award NE/T010975/1.

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (less than 2 micrometers) of Pleistocene-Holocene drift sediments recovered at Hole U1533A on the Amundsen Sea continental rise during IODP Exp379 with RV JOIDES Resolution in Jan-Mar 2019. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages (%) both versus expedition number, site number, hole ID, core number, drill core type (H: advanced piston corer system, X: extended core barrel system; R: rotary core barrel system), section number (sect), section half (W: work; A: archive) and depth of the top and bottom of the sample within a section or core catcher (CC) in centimetres (cm) and versus depth below seafloor (CSF-A) in metres (m). The d-values (in Angstrom) and integral breadths (IB, delta 2theta) of the clay minerals smectite and illite as well as the ratios between the areas of the 5 Angstrom and 10 Angstrom peaks of illite are also given. The clay mineral data were generated and analysed by Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof Werner Ehrmann (Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany). Users of this dataset should cite the dataset DOI and acknowledge both the data generators (C.-D. Hillenbrand and W. Ehrmann) and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The work was funded by NERC UK-IODP Moratorium Award NE/T010975/1.

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (less than 2 micrometers) of Pleistocene-Holocene drift sediments recovered at Hole U1532A on the Amundsen Sea continental rise during IODP Exp379 with RV JOIDES Resolution in Jan-Mar 2019. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages (%) both versus expedition number, site number, hole ID, core number, drill core type (H: advanced piston corer system, X: extended core barrel system; R: rotary core barrel system), section number (sect), section half (W: work; A: archive) and depth of the top and bottom of the sample within a section or core catcher (CC) in centimetres (cm) and versus depth below seafloor (CSF-A) in metres (m). The d-values (in Angstrom) and integral breadths (IB, delta 2theta) of the clay minerals smectite and illite as well as the ratios between the areas of the 5 Angstrom and 10 Angstrom peaks of illite are also given. The clay mineral data were generated and analysed by Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof Werner Ehrmann (Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany). Users of this dataset should cite the dataset DOI and acknowledge both the data generators (C.-D. Hillenbrand and W. Ehrmann) and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The work was funded by NERC UK-IODP Moratorium Award NE/T010975/1.

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (less than 2 micrometers) of Pleistocene-Holocene drift sediments recovered at Hole U1533D on the Amundsen Sea continental rise during IODP Exp379 with RV JOIDES Resolution in Jan-Mar 2019. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages (%) both versus expedition number, site number, hole ID, core number, drill core type (H: advanced piston corer system, X: extended core barrel system; R: rotary core barrel system), section number (sect), section half (W: work; A: archive) and depth of the top and bottom of the sample within a section or core catcher (CC) in centimetres (cm) and versus depth below seafloor (CSF-A) in metres (m). The d-values (in Angstrom) and integral breadths (IB, delta 2theta) of the clay minerals smectite and illite as well as the ratios between the areas of the 5 Angstrom and 10 Angstrom peaks of illite are also given. The clay mineral data were generated and analysed by Dr Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom) and Prof Werner Ehrmann (Institute of Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany). Users of this dataset should cite the dataset DOI and acknowledge both the data generators (C.-D. Hillenbrand and W. Ehrmann) and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The work was funded by NERC UK-IODP Moratorium Award NE/T010975/1.

This data set presents contents of the clay minerals smectite, illite, chlorite and kaolinite analysed on the clay fraction (<2 micrometer) of seafloor surface sediments. The sediments were recovered with a mega-corer (MC), box corer (BC), kasten corer (KC) or jumbo gravity corer (JGC) on the Amundsen Sea continental shelf in the vicinity of Thwaites Glacier and Pine Island Glacier. Sediment cores were collected during cruises NBP1902 (Jan-Mar 2019) and NBP2002 (Jan-Mar 2020) with RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer as part of the Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) project on behalf of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) programme. The clay mineral contents are given in percentages and subbottom depth in centimetres (cm). NERC grant NE/S006664/1 and NSFPLR grant no. 1738942. This data was collected as part of the NERC-NSF funded International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) program.

Piston core PS1506, a repeat of core PS1387, was collected from a midslope bench on the continental margin on the southern limb of the Weddell Gyre in the vicinity of cores PS1388 and PS1389. At these core sites in the Weddell Sea, polynyas enabled continuous primary productivity and benthic life during glacial periods. PS1506 is situated at 2426 m water depth. The core is beneath the depth of the average modern saturation horizon based on the carbonate chemistry of eastern Weddell Sea waters but above the local CCD (carbonate compensation depth).