This data set includes TOC and CaCO3 (and the respective mass accumulation rates), C:N ratios and stable oxygen and carbon isotopes measured on the planktic formainifera N. pachyderma (dex.).

• according to Wienberg, C., Hebbeln, D., Fink, H., Mienis, F., Dorschel, B., Vertino, A., López Correa, M., Freiwald, A., (2009) Scleractinian cold-water corals in the Gulf of Cádiz - first clues about their spatial and temporal distribution. Deep-Sea Research I, 56, 1873–1893, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.05.016 --> this study also includes the endmember modelling data of the grain size analyses unfortunately, the numbers presented in the publication (5-25 g cm-2 kyr-1) are two orders of magnitude too high* unfortunately, the numbers presented in the publication (500-1500 g cm-2 kyr-1) are two orders of magnitude too high