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The GIK-Archive of sediment core radiographs with documentation
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
Kyaw Winn
Institut für Geowissenschaften (formerly Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, GIK), Christian-Albrechts
Universität, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Friedrich Werner
deceased
Amelie Driemel
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
Stefanie Schumacher
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
Rainer Sieger
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
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A new digital map of the sediment types covering the bottom of the ocean has been created. Direct observations of the seafloor sediments are few and far apart. Therefore, machine learning was used to fill those gaps between observations. This was possible because known relationships between sediment types and the environment in which they form (e.g. water depth, temperature, and salt content) could be exploited. The results are expected to provide important information for marine research.
Bram C. van Prooijen, Marion F. S. Tissier, Floris P. de Wit, Stuart G. Pearson, Laura B. Brakenhoff, Marcel C. G. van Maarseveen, Maarten van der Vegt, Jan-Willem Mol, Frank Kok, Harriette Holzhauer, Jebbe J. van der Werf, Tommer Vermaas, Matthijs Gawehn, Bart Grasmeijer, Edwin P. L. Elias, Pieter Koen Tonnon, Giorgio Santinelli, José A. A. Antolínez, Paul Lodewijk M. de Vet, Ad J. H. M. Reniers, Zheng Bing Wang, Cornelis den Heijer, Carola van Gelder-Maas, Rinse J. A. Wilmink, Cor A. Schipper, and Harry de Looff
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 2775–2786, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2775-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2775-2020, 2020
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To protect the Dutch coastal zone, sand is nourished and disposed at strategic locations. Simple questions like where, how, how much and when to nourish the sand are not straightforward to answer. This is especially the case around the Wadden Sea islands where sediment transport pathways are complicated. Therefore, a large-scale field campaign has been carried out on the seaward side of Ameland Inlet. Sediment transport, hydrodynamics, morphology and fauna in the bed were measured.
Panagiotis Athanasiou, Ap van Dongeren, Alessio Giardino, Michalis Vousdoukas, Sandra Gaytan-Aguilar, and Roshanka Ranasinghe
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 1515–1529, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1515-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1515-2019, 2019
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This dataset provides the spatial distribution of nearshore slopes at a resolution of 1 km along the global coastline. The calculation was based on available global topo-bathymetric datasets and ocean wave reanalysis. The calculated slopes show skill in capturing the spatial variability of the nearshore slopes when compared against local observations. The importance of this variability is presented with a global coastal retreat assessment for an arbitrary sea level rise scenario.
Walter Brambilla, Alessandro Conforti, Simone Simeone, Paola Carrara, Simone Lanucara, and Giovanni De Falco
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 515–527, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-515-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-515-2019, 2019
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The expected sea level rise by the year 2100 will determine an adaptation of the whole coastal system and the land retreat of the shoreline. Future scenarios coupled with the improvement of mining technologies will favour increased exploitation of sand deposits for nourishment. This work summarises a large data set of geophysical and sedimentological data that maps the spatial features of submerged sand deposits and is a useful tool in future climate change scenarios.
Ana Trobec, Martina Busetti, Fabrizio Zgur, Luca Baradello, Alberto Babich, Andrea Cova, Emiliano Gordini, Roberto Romeo, Isabella Tomini, Sašo Poglajen, Paolo Diviacco, and Marko Vrabec
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1077–1092, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1077-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1077-2018, 2018
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Following the last glacial period the sea level started rising rapidly. The sea started entering the Gulf of Trieste approximately 10000 years ago and since then marine Holocene sediment has been depositing. We wanted to understand how thick this sediment is, so we used modern scientific equipment which lets us determine the depth of the seafloor and the sediment below. The sediment is thickest in the SE part of the gulf (approx. 5 m). In the other parts it is very thin, except near the coast.
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A unique archive of radiographs from ocean floor sediments was produced during five decades of marine geological work at the Geological-Paleontological Institute, Kiel University. The content of 18 500 images was digitized, uploaded to the data library PANGAEA, georeferenced and completed with metadata. With this publication the images are made available to the scientific community under a CC-BY licence, which is open-access and citable with the persistent identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854841.
A unique archive of radiographs from ocean floor sediments was produced during five decades of...
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