FTIR and Py-GC-MS data of wood from various living oak species and Iberian shipwrecks

Mohamed Traoré; Joeri Kaal; Antonio Martínez Cortizas

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.032

FTIR and Py-GC-MS data of wood from various living oak species and Iberian shipwrecks

Data Brief. 2018 Nov 10:21:1861-1863. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.032. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Authors

Mohamed Traoré¹, Joeri Kaal^{1

2}, Antonio Martínez Cortizas¹

Affiliations

¹ Ciencia do Sistema Terra, Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur s/n, Santiago de Compostela 15782, Spain.
² Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), s/n, A, Av. de Vigo, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain.

Abstract

Data in this article are related to the chemical characterization of various oak wood samples. Data have been obtained by the application of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) to living tree species and shipwreck wood fragments. Measurements were performed on individual rings in order to facilitate the understanding of the variability in wood chemical composition along the radial cores, i.e. the same kind of material traditionally used for dendrochronological analysis. The data in this article is labelled according to the anatomical sections of the wood (sapwood, transition wood and heartwood) where the samples were taken. The experimental background and the results can be found in the related research article, "Chemometric tools for identification of wood from different oak species and their potential for provenancing of Iberian shipwrecks (16th-18th centuries CE)" (Traoré et al., 2018).