In order to study influence of changing oceanographic setting and climate on carbon burial efficiency and provenance of detrital component a sedimentary core (POS514-40-11GC) was retrived from Mid Adriatic Deep (MAD), Adriatic Sea (Latitude: 43.483333, Longitude:15.433333 , water depth of 217 m) from R/V Poseidon during the cruise named "Micropaleontology, Actuopaleontology and Environmental Baseline Study of the Holocene to latest Pleistocene in the Northern and Eastern Adriatic Sea Basin" in May/June 2017. Heavy mineral composition was analyzed using the polarizing microscope with max distance ribbon counting method, up to 250 transparent grains were counted per sample, in total seven samples were analyzed in ca 1m resolution.