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Iceberg rafted debris flux on the Sabrina continental slope - for A042_KC14

Created 17/11/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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Ice-rafted debris is characterised by coarse material with typically angular grains, transported within icebergs and deposted in the ocean as the icebergs melt. This iceberg rafted debris (IBRD) flux data submitted here, was calculated by quantifying the coarse sand fraction (CSF) as a percentage of the bulk sample (weight of grains in the 250 micron to 2 mm size fraction), the dry bulk density (DBD) and the linear sedimentation rate (LSR) (following Krissek et al., 1995, Patterson et al., 2014). A method for quantifying the IBRD flux uses the coarse sand fraction (CSF) as a percentage of the bulk sample, dry bulk density (DBD) and the linear sedimentation rate (LSR) (Krissek et al., 1995, Patterson et al., 2014): The CSF (250μm-2mm) was acquired from samples at 10cm intervals along KC14 by wet-sieving approximately 20g of sediment per sample. Authigenic grains and microfossils were removed from the samples under a microscope. The remaining material was weighed on a microbalance and calculated as a percentage of the bulk sample. The DBD was calculated by subsampling approximately 8cm3 of sediment from the same depth intervals and dividing the dry weight of the sediment by the volume of the subsampler. The LSR was approximated by dividing the distance (cm) between the calibrated bulk carbon ages by the difference in time (kyr). The IBRD flux was then quantified using the above equation for each depth interval.

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Title Iceberg rafted debris flux on the Sabrina continental slope - for A042_KC14
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f2d11d89-58cd-49ac-bedb-493638bd5539
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/07/2016 - 30/06/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Iceberg rafted debris flux on the Sabrina continental slope - for A042_KC14". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/iceberg-rafted-debris-flux-on-the-sabrina-continental-slope-for-a042_kc141