X-ray diffraction analysis of sediment cores from the ACEX expedition to the Arctic Ocean

The unique central Arctic Ocean samples of the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Leg 302 Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX), the first mission specific platform Leg, were collected and prepared by different German groups and provided to the Central Laboratory for Crystallography and Applied Material Sciences, Geosciences, University of Bremen.

This data set is special because all samples were measured on the same diffractometer, used the same measurement settings and the diffractograms were investigated by the same person. Therefore, maximum continuity from the onshore party investigation till now is given. Sediments of the Arctic Ocean are dominated by detrital non-biogenic material in the Neogene and are also influenced by diagenetic processes over the whole section.