A dataset of the Plio-Pleistocene at IODP Site U1489: Benthic foraminifera stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, coarse fraction, and selected benthic foraminifera abundances

Haowen Dang; Nana Peng; Zhimin Jian

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.105020

A dataset of the Plio-Pleistocene at IODP Site U1489: Benthic foraminifera stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, coarse fraction, and selected benthic foraminifera abundances

Data Brief. 2019 Dec 18:28:105020. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.105020. eCollection 2020 Feb.

Authors

Haowen Dang¹, Nana Peng¹, Zhimin Jian¹

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Abstract

Site U1489 was drilled during the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 363 and is located on the western slope of the southern Eauripik Rise (2.12°N, 141.03°E, 3421 m water depth). We collected 183 samples from the upper ∼84 m of Site U1489 with an average sampling interval of ~50 cm, and performed the analyses of sediment washing and sieving, benthic foraminifera stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, and the relative abundance of selected benthic foraminifera. The data of these analyses are discussed in "Possible linkage between the long-eccentricity marine carbon cycle and the deep-Pacific circulation: Western equatorial Pacific benthic foraminifera evidences of the last 4Ma" [1], which provide a series of Plio-Pleistocene records of the western equatorial Pacific serving for regional and global comparisons of changes in the deep Pacific water mass properties and circulation.

Keywords: Deep water circulation; IODP Expedition 363; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Western equatorial Pacific.