Plio-Pleistocene Neodymium (Nd) isotope data for Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 967, Eastern Mediterranean

Past North African humid periods resulted in expanded vegetation over the Sahara, due to northward tropical African rainbelt displacement. Commonly, these precession-timed North African humid periods ended within 15 thousand years as the monsoon rainbelt retreated southward during subsequent dry intervals. Eastern Mediterranean organic-rich layers (sapropels) reflect North African humid periods through out the Plio-Pleistocene, which are interbedded with the marls deposited during intervening dry periods. ODP Site 160-967 in the eastern Mediterranean is composed of sediments delivered from North Africa back to the Miocene/Pliocene boundary. Here we present a low-resolution Neodymium isotope record for the past 5 million years (from sapropels and marls), which reflects sediment source region variability to the eastern Mediterranean across the Plio-Pleistocene.

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Amarathunga, Udara, Rohling, Eelco J, Grant, Katharine M, Francke, Alexander, Latimer, James, Klaebe, Robert M, Heslop, David, Roberts, Andrew, Hutchinson, David K (2024). Dataset: Plio-Pleistocene Neodymium (Nd) isotope data for Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 967, Eastern Mediterranean. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.971255

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Imported on November 30, 2024
Last update November 30, 2024
License CC-BY-4.0
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.971255
Author Amarathunga, Udara
Given Name Udara
Family Name Amarathunga
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Rohling, Eelco J
Grant, Katharine M
Francke, Alexander
Latimer, James
Klaebe, Robert M
Heslop, David
Roberts, Andrew
Hutchinson, David K
Source Creation 2024
Publication Year 2024
Resource Type text/tab-separated-values - filename: 160-967_Nd_isotope
Subject Areas
Name: Lithosphere

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Title: Mid-Pliocene glaciation preceded by a 0.5-million-year North African humid period
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01472-8
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2024
Source: Nature Geoscience
Authors: Amarathunga Udara , Rohling Eelco J , Grant Katharine M , Francke Alexander , Latimer James , Klaebe Robert M , Heslop David , Roberts Andrew P , Hutchinson David K .