Dataset: Atlantic sediment petrography analysis data from mult-corer samples collected in the Amazon Delta and Sierra Leone Rise during R/V Endeavor cruises EN-480 and EN-481 in 2010

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.908380.1Version 1 (2023-10-02)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Rainer Lohmann (University of Rhode Island)

Student: Kari Ann St. Laurent (University of Rhode Island)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Concentrations and source assessment of black carbon across tropical Atlantic air and sediment (Tropical Atlantic Black Carbon)

Project: The Black Carbon Cycle: Budget and Fluxes of Black Carbon in South Atlantic Sediments (Black Carbon Cycle)

Abstract

These data include the sediment petrographic analysis for Amazon Delta and Sierra Leone Rise Sediments. These data were collected on multiple cruises in throughout the Atlantic; specifically, in the Amazon Delta (EN-480; July 2010) and Sierra Leone Rise (EN-481; August 2010). Sediments were collected using multi-corer and kept frozen until analysis. Sediments were analyzed quantitatively via microscopy by Dr. Bertrand Ligouis at the Laboratories for Applied Organic Petrology at the University o...

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Sediment samples were collected via a 4-barrel multi-corer (R/V Endeavor, segmented into 1-2 cm sections, dried in a drying oven (35°C) and homogenized via mortar and pestle.

Instruments
Polished sediments were observed under a Leitz DMRX-MPVSP microscope photometer using a magnification up to 500X with reflected white light, uѵ fluorescence, plane-polarized light, and cross-polarized light.

Location: 
Amazon Delta (approximately: 4 N, 47 W; 2400-3500m); Sierra Leone Rise (approximately: 7 N, 20 W; 2800-3800m).

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Results
St.Laurent, K., Cantwell, M., & Lohmann, R. (2023). New insights on black carbon in pelagic Atlantic sediments. Marine Chemistry, 104312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2023.104312

Lohmann, R., St. Laurent, K. A. (2023) Atlantic sediment petrography analysis data from mult-corer samples collected in the Amazon Delta and Sierra Leone Rise during R/V Endeavor cruises EN-480 and EN-481 in 2010. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2023-10-02 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.908380.1 [access date]

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