Parameter: meters below seafloor

Short Description:

meters below seafloor

Short Name:

mbsf

Official Name:

meters below seafloor

Units:

meters

Graphable:

Yes

No Data Value:

Description

Meters below seafloor (mbsf); convention used for depths below the seabed in geology, oceanography, petrology and ocean drilling; often used in reporting measurements made from sediment cores.

Datasets associated with this parameter

Dataset Name	Brief Description	Project	PI-Supplied Parameter Name
AT39-01 CathodicEET CyclicVoltametry		North Pond 2017	FLOCSdepth
AT39-01 CathodicEET Experiment Metadata		North Pond 2017	FLOCSdepth, FLOCSsourceDepth, MediasourceDepth
AT39-01 CathodicEET SEM		North Pond 2017	FLOCSdepth
Carbon NEXAFS bulk data		Org C Sed I, Org C Sed II	core_depth
NP_16SrRNA_Huber	v6 16S rRNA from IODP boreholes, seawater, and drilling mud at North Pond.	North Pond Microbes	depth_mbsf_range, depth_mbsf_min, depth_mbsf_max
NP_Biomass_Huber	Total microbial cell densities and 16S rRNA abundance from North Pond.	North Pond Microbes	depth_mbsf_range, depth_mbsf_min, depth_mbsf_max
Organic carbon content		Org C Sed I, Org C Sed II	depth
Peru Margin iTAGs	Fungal iTAG analyses on Peru Margin sediment core samples	Fungal and prokaryotic activity in subseafloor	core_depth, sample_depth
poly-A mRNA	The eukaryotic (poly-A) metatranscriptome for Canterbury Basin	Fungal and prokaryotic activity in subseafloor	core_depth, sample_depth
Proteinaceous material content		Org C Sed I, Org C Sed II	depth
Sediment microbial MPNs	North Atlantic subseafloor sediment viable microbe numbers/metabolisms from cruise KN223	Subseafloor metabolisms	depth_mbsf
Sediment microbial production	3H-leucine and thymidine incorporation of North Atlantic subseafloor sediments from cruise KN223	Subseafloor metabolisms	depth_mbsf
Stable carbon isotopes of seafloor basalts	Stable carbon isotopic composition of organic matter from seafloor basalts incubated with labeled bicarbonate	Basalt carbon fixation	depth_mbsf
Whole community metatranscriptomes	Whole community (3 domain) metatranscriptomes for Peru Margin and Canterbury Basin subsurface sediment core samples	Fungal and prokaryotic activity in subseafloor	core_depth, sample_depth

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Parameter: meters below seafloor