Vertical sediment profile

Please read and follow our Authors Guides when preparing your Data submission. We recommend to use the topic specific templates and to follow the instructions here. The following defines frequent data types and summarizes how to prepare geological, paleontological and geochemical data collected in the field for submission to PANGAEA.

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Coring/Drilling

This Template for sediment/rock cores might help you for your Data submission.

Metadate Campaign Please fill up the Campaign sheet with: LINK ZU CAMPAIGN Cruise/expedition label Start and End date (in ISO 8601) Basis = ship or research platform Chief Scientist Metadata Event Please fill up the Event sheet with: LINK ZU EVENT • Event label, name of the core • Device with which the sediment core was taken • Latitude, Longitude, in decimal degree • Elevation, negativ if below sea level • Date/Time of sampling (in ISO 8601 ) • Campaign of sampling • registry.awi link • ISGN link/handle • Information about penetration and/or recovery Metadata Parameter • Give all parameters as full names, no abbreviations. • Full name applies especially to species names • Give the unit, SI units are preferred • Add the Principle Investigator (PI) for the parameters. The Principle investigator (PI) is the person being responsible for the scientific quality of a data series. • Please give the method of measurement for each parameter.

Data • First column: Event label • First line: full parameter names including the unit, given in square brackets • Give the depth below seafloor (or mcd, rmcd) or the depth below earth surface in meter = DEPTH, sediment/rock • In addition geological data benefit from an age scale. Please give the age in [ka] as additional column, if available • In addition, provide sample labels and IGSN, if available

Data types and template

There are various types of geological data analyzed in sediment and rock cores in PANGAEA, a few examples can be found here:

Example from a Gravity Corer: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.809012,

Example from DSDP/ODP/IODP: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.922398

Example sediment surface samples/short cores (e.g., MUC): https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.923422

For all data types PANGAEA needs to know the metadata. This Template for sediment/rock cores might help you for your Data submission.

Metadata and Data

We recommend the following template:

Template for sediment/rock cores (xlsx-file including detailed instructions)

Metadata Event

• Event label, name of the core
• Device with which the sediment core was taken
• Latitude, Longitude, in decimal degree
• Elevation, negativ if below sea level
• Date/Time of sampling (in ISO 8601 )
• Campaign of sampling
• sensor.awi link
• ISGN link/handle
• Any other information e.g., optional event label, recovery, comments

Metadata Parameter

• Give all parameters as full names, no abbreviations.
• Give the unit (SI units) behind the parameter names in squarte brackets

Data

• Please provide the data in an excel sheet or as tab delimited text file. Avoid text or csv files with any other column separation.
• First column: Event label
• Give the depth below seafloor (or mcd, rmcd) in meter
• First line: full parameter names including the unit, given in square brackets
• Granularity of data sets may follow categories, e.g. all benthic foraminifera or all physical properties data in one set
• Data of several profiles with the same parameter and structure may be provided in one file, cores following sequentialy one below the other