Eight gravity cores from the Southern Australian Continental Margin were analyzed for porewater metabolites, major and trace elements, and radiochemical data. This record from the Bureau of Mineral Resources survey 67 provides a summary of analyses conducted both at sea and in Canberra. The data can assess long-term environmental change, Late Quaternary climate, and processes related to seafloor mineral formation.
Use Cases
- Assess long-term environmental change from anthropogenic discharges based on geochemical analyses.
- Reconstruct Late Quaternary paleoceanographic conditions based on radiochemical species like authigenic uranium.
- Identify geochemical processes for seafloor mineral formation based on pore water silicate and manganese data.
Strengths
- Data includes analyses from eight distinct gravity cores.
- Analyses cover multiple complementary geochemical domains: porewater metabolites, major/trace elements, and radiochemistry.
- Data collection involved both at-sea and onshore laboratory work.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Gravity core sampling and geochemical analysis as part of Bureau of Mineral Resources survey 67.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-27 20:12:16.044929; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Southern Australian Continental Margin, including offshore West Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria.