Southern Australian continental margin sediments from offshore West Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria were analyzed. The dataset includes porewater metabolites, major and trace element abundances, radiochemical data, and paleoceanographic indicators from eight gravity cores collected during Bureau of Mineral Resources survey 67. These data form part of a broader geochemical database for the Australian continental margin.
Use Cases
- Assess long-term environmental change from anthropogenic discharges based on porewater metabolite and trace element data.
- Evaluate Late Quaternary and natural climatic change using radiochemical species and paleoceanographic indicators.
- Identify geochemical processes for seafloor mineral formation (e.g., phosphorites, manganese crusts) based on pore water silicate and manganese inventory data.
Strengths
- Data from eight gravity cores analyzed both at sea and in Canberra.
- Includes complementary geochemical analyses: porewater metabolites, major/trace elements, radiochemical data, and paleoceanographic indicators.
- Part of a systematic geochemical database for the Australian continental margin.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific survey area.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Gravity core sampling and geochemical analysis conducted during Bureau of Mineral Resources survey 67.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-05 04:51:23.537998; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Southern Australian continental margin, including offshore West Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria.