Dataset: Increased North African dust fluxes and higher productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean linked to stronger trade winds from about 2.7 million years ago

This data is associated with the manuscript:

Crocker, A.J., Jewell, A.M., Mitsunaga B.A. et al. Increased North African Dust Fluxes and Higher Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean linked to stronger trade winds from about 2.7 Million Years Ago. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (2025).

Datasets included:

ODP Site 659 d18O and d13C of G. ruber

ODP Site 659 d18O and d13C of C. wuellerstorfi

ODP Site 659 Uk37 ratios and estimated sea surface temperatures

ODP Site 659 estimated local seawater d18O

ODP Site 659 concentration and flux of C37 alkenones

ODP Site 659 X-ray fluorescence core scan elemental count data and calibrated [Al+Fe]/[Si+K+Ti] ratios

ODP Site 659 dust flux estimates

ODP Site 659 %CaCO3 and %total organic carbon 

ODP Site 659 revised splice ties and age-depth ties

ODP Site 662 X-ray fluorescence core scan elemental count data

ODP Site 662 %CaCO3 and %total organic carbon