IODP Site U1502 Miocene Sedimentation Rates and Age Models

Three Excel tables provide sedimentation rates, a refined age model, and calculated mass accumulation rates for red beds recovered at Site U1502. The dataset was authored by Pengfei Ma and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. It was last updated on June 1, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling sedimentation rates based on the provided rate tables.
• Refining geological age-depth relationships based on the refined age model.
• Analyzing mass accumulation rates for paleoclimatic reconstructions based on the calculated rates.

Strengths

• Contains three distinct, focused tables (S3, S4, S5) for specific analyses.
• Explicitly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for open reuse.
• Last update timestamp (2026-06-01) indicates recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small (78.7 KB), indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Pengfei Ma via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely derived from analysis of sediment cores from IODP Site U1502.

Time Range

Early-middle Miocene.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 10:46:53.

Geography

Site U1502, a marine drilling location.