During the summer of 2015, we reproduced three levels of browning and seven levels of nutrients using water from lake Stechlin (North-East Germany). We applied ultra-high-resolution mass-spectrometry and dissolved organic matter optical properties to retrieve the composition of the DOM at different levels of resolutions. Using a network analysis approach, we found that molecular formulas clustering together share a common origin.
The Younger Dryas was the final cold phase during the last deglaciation; it started with an abrupt cooling in the Northern Hemisphere within just a few years. However, the regional patterns of Younger Dryas cooling in the North Atlantic realm were complex and mechanistically not fully understood. We present sub-annually resolved fatty acid data from Meerfelder Maar covering the Allerød-Younger Dryas transition to revel forcing mechanisms behind the time-transgressive Younger Dryas cooling across the North Atlantic realm. Data were generated using Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) on 65 cm long section from the MFM09-A5-UR core. MSI was performed using a 7T solarix XR Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance-mass spectrometer (FT-ICR-MS) coupled to a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) source equipped with a Smartbeam II laser (Bruker Daltonik, Bremen, Germany). We used average chain length (ACL) of long-chain fatty acids (C24, C26, C28) and three terrestrial aquatic ratios (TARs; TAR based on C26 and C16 (TAR=C26/(C26+C16)), TAR based on C24 and C16 (TARC24/(C24+C16)) and TAR based on C28, C26, C24, C16 and C14 (TAR(C24+C26+C28)/(C24+C26+C28+C14+C16)) fatty acids). Moreover, we present ACL based on gas chromatography data and stable carbon isotopes data from individual fatty acids (δ13C of C16, C24, C26, C28 and bishomohopanoic acid (δ13CBA)) from the same section in a lower resolution as supporting data.
Organic matter (OM) is known to be an important reductant in sediment-hosted base metal deposits like the European Kupferschiefer. However, the precise nature of interactions between OM and hydrothermal fluids are still debated as well as how the interconnected reactions develop over geological timescales.
This dataset provides for the first time bulk, compositional and stable isotope data of hydrocarbons, biomarkers and organonitrogen, -sulfur and-oxygen (NSO) compounds for the mineralized Kupferschiefer Spremberg-Graustein field in Eastern Germany based on samples from two drill cores. The study aims to help to better understand the role that organic matter plays during the mineralisation and formation of the sedimentary ore deposit within the Kupferschiefer with a focus on stable hydrogen isotope compositions and NSO compositional data to especially address the origin and to assess the oxidative nature of the brines that caused the mineralization in the Spremberg-Graustein field.
The data publication includes bulk, compositional and stable isotope data on inorganic metals and organic matter. The data about metal contents were generated using ICP-MS while those on the organic matter were generated using Rock-Eval pyrolysis, a microscope, a Soxhlet apparatus, medium pressure liquid chromatography (MPLC), gas chromatography with flame ionization (GC-FID) and mass spectrometric detection (GC-MS), gas chromatography isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-IRMS) and ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry (Fourier Transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry, FT-ICR-MS) with Electrospray ionization (ESI) and Atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI). The full description of samples, methods and data is given in the following sections.