World Atlas of late Quaternary Foraminiferal Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Ratios

Stefan Mulitza , Torsten Bickert , Helen C. Bostock , Cristiano M. Chiessi , Barbara Donner , Aline Govin (1) , Naomi Harada , Enqing Huang , Heather Johnstone , Henning Kuhnert , Michael Langner , Frank Lamy , Lester Lembke-Jene , Lorraine Lisiecki , Jean Lynch-Stieglitz , Lars Max , Mahyar Mohtadi , Gesine Mollenhauer , Juan Muglia , Dirk Nürnberg , André Paul , Carsten Rühlemann , Janne Repschläger , Rajeev Saraswat , Andreas Schmittner , Elisabeth L. Sikes , Robert F. Spielhagen , Ralf Tiedemann

1 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]

We present a global atlas of downcore foraminiferal oxygen and carbon isotope ratios available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.936747 (Mulitza et al., 2021a). The database contains 2106 published and previously unpublished stable isotope downcore records with 361 949 stable isotope values of various planktic and benthic species of Foraminifera from 1265 sediment cores. Age constraints are provided by 6153 uncalibrated radiocarbon ages from 598 (47 %) of the cores. Each stable isotope and radiocarbon series is provided in a separate netCDF file containing fundamental metadata as attributes. The data set can be managed and explored with the free software tool PaleoDataView. The atlas will provide important data for paleoceanographic analyses and compilations, site surveys, or for teaching marine stratigraphy. The database can be updated with new records as they are generated, providing a live ongoing resource into the future.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences

Stefan Mulitza, Torsten Bickert, Helen C. Bostock, Cristiano M. Chiessi, Barbara Donner, et al.. World Atlas of late Quaternary Foraminiferal Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Ratios. Earth System Science Data, 2022, 14, pp.2553-2611. ⟨10.5194/essd-14-2553-2022⟩. ⟨insu-03721927⟩