IODP Expedition 382: Supplementary Tables for "Episodes of early Pleistocene West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat recorded by Iceberg Alley sediments"

IODP Expedition 382: Supplementary Tables for "Episodes of early Pleistocene West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat recorded by Iceberg Alley sediments"

Includes SEM QEMSCAN® and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar data for International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 382 Site U1538. Also includes a movie of a 3D-volume realization of an iceberg-rafted sedimentary layer from this site based on non-destructive X-ray microtomography imaging.

Data Set Captions:

Data Set S1. Modal mineralogy data based on QEMSCAN® analyses, which infer minerals from chemistry. The mineral name assignations for each chemistry-based category stated in this table are aided by visual (microscope-based) inspection of the raw sieved samples.

Data Set S2. Mineral association data based on QEMSCAN® analyses. Please read data in columns, mineral against mineral (down then across left). These data define what touches what in the sample and is displayed as a percentage. Association refers to adjacency. Two minerals are “associated” if a pixel of one of the minerals occurs adjacent to a pixel of the other mineral. iExplorer software used scans the measured particles horizontally, from left to right, counting the associations that occur in the images (so the more pixels/closer the x-ray spacing the more accurate the data). Each column is independent. That is, it is split into a percentage of what touches what, so it is not expected that any two minerals’ data are reciprocal. The background category primarily reflects the free boundaries of ‘grains’ rather than liberated grains/particles. While it may provide an indicator of liberation, it does not represent liberation since it does not describe ‘particles’ which are made up of mineral grains. Inclusions and composite particles are therefore not described. Please consider the modal mineralogy (Tab. S1) when examining these mineral association data.

Data Set S3. Lithotyping data based on QEMSCAN® analyses. Particles have been digitally filtered using a set of lithotype rules (also displayed in this data set). These rules are based on the mineral grains in the particles themselves and use their area percent within each particle and their size in microns. The lithotype names stated here are largely assigned based on the dominant mineral grain in each category.

Data Set S4. 40Ar/39Ar ages of individual sand-sized hornblende and mica. See main text for method used to generate these ages.

Movie S1. 3D-volume realization based on non-destructive X-ray microtomography imaging of a centimeter-scale iceberg-rafted debris-rich layer in Hole U1538A-36X-3W. 3D images were generated using a helical scanning trajectory that allows for long scan sequences and fast acquisition time. Based on the sample geometry, a voxel (pixel) resolution of ~14-μm was achieved. The 7000+ projection images were reconstructed to produce a 3D volume of image intensities (where higher values indicate greater x-ray attenuation). Avizo software was used for 3D segmentation and volume rendering to visualize gravel and sand to create this animation. The different colors assigned to each clast were chosen arbitrary.