Authigenic beryllium concentrations and ratios (10Be/9Be) of sediment core PS67/197-1

Core PS67/197-1 (Scotia Sea),was taken via piston corer during RV Polarstern cruise ANT-XXII/4. We obtained high resolution records of authigenic 10Be/9Be ratios in order to study the different impacts on 10Be deposition in marine sediments compared to ice cores. As changes in the atmospheric production of cosmogenic 10Be leave a global fingerprint in 10Be deposition fluxes this represents a powerful tool for the synchronization of climate archives. During the Laschamps geomagnetic field low (~ 41 ka BP) the global production rate of 10Be is expected to double. We therefore chose the depth interval covering this period (8.51 m – 16.31 m). For Be measurements 1.5 – 3.0 g of freeze dried samples of the core were leached (Gutjahr et al., 2007), purified (Loftfield et al., 2024), and measured via ICP-OES (9Be) and AMS (10Be; Lachner et al., 2023 and Rugel et al., 2016).