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Sediment data from IODP Expedition 363 (NERC grant NE/P016456/1)

Sediment % coarse fraction (>63 microns), and abundance of fish teeth in coarse fraction. 2016 has been a record breaking year in terms of global temperatures. The high temperatures have resulted from a combination of elevated atmospheric pCO2 coupled with the global impacts of a strong El Nino event. There are many important components of the climate system, and the El Nino phenomenon demonstrates the importance of the low latitude Pacific Ocean. The warm pool of water in the western Pacific Ocean has not always had the same characteristics as it has today, and it has been proposed that its evolution over the past 15 million years has had a major impact on global climate. In order to understand how the warm pool might respond to future climate change, it is important to understand the drivers behind its past evolution. Did it respond simply to the changing shape of ocean basins through time? Or did it respond to other components of the climate system, such as sea level or latitudinal temperature gradients? The changes in warm pool structure may also have impacted the biological ecosystems, and hence the cycling of carbon in this region. The carbon cycle is another key component of the Earth's climate system. Understanding the causes and consequences of these long-term changes in the Pacific warm pool requires a two-pronged approach, using modelling in conjunction with proxy records for different parts of the climate system. This proposal aims to generate some key records of past high latitude temperature and ice volume that can be directly compared with changes in the warm pool through time. These records will be derived from geochemical analyses of microscopic marine fossils collected by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).

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Date (Creation)
2019-03-08
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607449
Point of contact
  University of Cardiff - Professor Carrie Lear ( School of Earth and Ocean Sciences )
Main Building , Cardiff , CF10 3AT ,
Principal investigator
  University of Cardiff - Professor Carrie Lear ( School of Earth and Ocean Sciences )
Main Building , Cardiff , CF10 3AT ,
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  • Geology
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  • Marine sediments
  • Sediments
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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Geographic identifier
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN [id=2002267]

Date (Revision)
2010

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Begin date
2017-09-01
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2019-03-08
Supplemental Information
International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Site U1490 (proposed Site WP-02A) is located on the northern edge of the Eauripik Rise at 05°48.95'N, 142°39.27'E in 2341 m water depth

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https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item126471
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Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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No

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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No
Statement
Sediment samples were washed through a 63 micron sieve to separate into coarse and fine fractions. Each fraction was weighed when dry and %coarse was calculated. Fish teeth were picked using a binocular microscope and weighed on a microbalance.
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Date stamp
2025-11-13
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607449
 
 

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