Sedimentary and geochemical data from JRD-S core at Zhuoshui River Delta, Taiwan

The Zhuoshui River drains the Taiwan orogen westward and is the largest river in terms of sediment discharge in Taiwan. The river-deposited fluvial successions were >50 m thick during the Last Glacial in its present delta position, and these successions are thicker than even the Holocene deltaic/estuarine succession. The data sets contain the sedimentary and geochemical data from the Last Glacial fluvial and the present delta sediments within JRD-S core at Zhuoshui River Delta. The data include grain size, carbon proxies, mass accumulation rate of total organic carbon (MAR-TOC), n-alkane biomarkers, and ratios of lithic and higher plant n-alkane in the sediments within the JRD-S core. The measurement uncertainties for TOC and TN are ±3%, while that for δ13Corg is ±0.3‰. The repeated measurement (n=12) for n-alkane gave mean uncertainties between 0.60–5.75%.