Radiocarbon dating of an Antarctic snow petrel stomach oil deposit

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Organic geochemistry, stable isotope analysis and elemental scans are presented here from a stomach-oil deposit collected at Heimefrontfjella Range, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Stomach-oil deposit 3012MUM2 was collected in season 2014–15 from the Boysennuten nunatak in the Heimefrontfjella Range of East Antarctica (74° 34.14'S; 11° 15.02'W). The aim of the analysis is to investigate snow petrel diet during the Holocene and in turn to infer changing sea-ice conditions in the Weddell Sea and South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean (Stevenson et al., Climate of the Past Discussions). The data include results from non-destructive XRF scanning, fatty acid distributions and other biomarkers of productivity and diet (Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, U.K.) and bulk stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham, U.K.). The age-depth model is constrained by 12 new bulk radiocarbon measurements (Beta Analytic Inc., Miami; SUERC, Glasgow).

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.980522
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Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-513
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Creator Stevenson, Mark A ORCID logo; Hodgson, Dominic A; Bentley, Michael J ORCID logo; Gröcke, Darren R ORCID logo; Tunstall, Neil; Longley, Chris; Graham, Alice; McClymont, Erin L ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 864637 doi:10.3030/864637 ANTarctic Sea Ice Evolution from a novel biological archive (ANTSIE); Leverhulme Trust https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000275 Crossref Funder ID RL-2019-023 https://antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/ Unlocking evidence for Antarctic sea-ice evolution from a novel biological archive, Web: , Award: Philip Leverhulme Research Leadership Award,; Natural Environment Research Council https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000270 Crossref Funder ID NE/K003674/1 Reducing the uncertainty in estimates of the sea level contribution from the westernmost part of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 84 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-11.250 LON, -74.569 LAT); Heimefrontfjella, Antarctica