1. ABOUT THE DATASET -------------------- Title: Dataset for 'Biology influences sedimentation in submarine channel bends: Coupling of biology, sedimentation, and flow' Creator(s): Azpiroz-Zabala, M. [1-3]; Sumner, E.J. [3]; Cartigny, M.J.B. [4]; Peakall, J. [5]; Clare, M.A. [1]; Darby, S.E. [6]; Parsons, D.R. [7]; Dorrell, R.M. [7]; Ӧzsoy, E. [8,9]; Tezcan, D. [9], Wynn, R.B. [3], Johnson, J. [7] Organisation(s): 1 National Oceanography Centre of Southampton. European Way, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH. United Kingdom 2 Arquimea Research Center. Edif.Nanotec. Parque Urbano Las Mantecas. Cº Las Mantecas s/n. 38320 San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Spain 3 School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH. United Kingdom 4 Geography Department, University of Durham, Lower Mountjoy, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom 5 School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom 6 School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Building 44, University Road, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom 7 Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom 8 Eurasia Institute of Earth Science, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey 9 Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey Rights-holder(s): Unless otherwise stated, Copyright 2023 University of Leeds Publication Year: 2023 Description: This dataset comprises ADCP and CTD data, and grab sample photographies and sedimentological analysis results. All data were collected in two oceanographic cruises on the shallow Black Sea shelf, to the North of the Strait of Bosphorus. During the first cruise on board the RV Koca Piri Reis in 2010, grab samples were recovered from the seafloor. During the second cruise on board the RV Pelagia and RV Bilim in 2013, bathymetry data, flow measurements (ADCP) and conductivity temperature depth (CTD) probes were collected. Cite as: Azpiroz-Zabala, M; Sumner, E.J.; Cartigny, M.J.B.; Peakall, J.; Clare, M.A.; Darby, S.E.; Parsons, D.R.; Dorrell, R.M.; Ӧzsoy, E.; Tezcan, D., Wynn, R.B., Johnson, J. (2023). Dataset for 'Biology influences sedimentation in submarine channel bends: Coupling of biology, sedimentation, and flow'. University of Leeds. https://doi.org/10.5518/1357. Related publication: Azpiroz-Zabala, M; Sumner, E.J.; Cartigny, M.J.B.; Peakall, J.; Clare, M.A.; Darby, S.E.; Parsons, D.R.; Dorrell, R.M.; Ӧzsoy, E.; Tezcan, D., Wynn, R.B., Johnson, J. (2023). Biology influences sedimentation in submarine channel bends: Coupling of biology, sedimentation, and flow. Submitted to Marine Geology. Contact: Jeff Peakall 2. TERMS OF USE --------------- Copyright 2023 University of Leeds. Unless otherwise stated, this dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.] 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION ---------------------------------- Title: Flow dynamics and sedimentation in an active submarine channel: a process-product approach Dates: 1 May 2010 - 31 Mar 2014 Funding organisation: Natural Environment Research Council Grant no.: NE/F020511/1 Title: Flow dynamics and sedimentation in an active submarine channel: a process-product approach Dates: 1 May 2010 - 31 Mar 2014 Funding organisation: Natural Environment Research Council Grant no.: NE/F020120/1 Title: Flow dynamics and sedimentation in an active submarine channel: a process-product approach Dates: 1 May 2010 - 31 Mar 2014 Funding organisation: Natural Environment Research Council Grant no.: NE/F020279/1 4. CONTENTS ----------- File listing - CTD folder: data files and calibration files. Each data file corresponds to a sampling station. - GrabSamples folder: it includes folder with photografies collected on board of representative samples. It also includes two spreadsheet files corresponding to description of samples on board and sedimentological analysis results. - ADCP folder: it includes a file called M438.mat. This file gathers the flow measurements of an ADCP 600 kHz mounted on an AUV flying over transects above the submarine channel in the Stratit of Bosphorus. File format: Matlab. - Bathy folder: 2 m resolution bathymetry data from the submarine channel and overbanks area. File format: ArcGIS. 5. METHODS ---------- The sediment samples were processed at the University of Southampton via wet-sieving, at half phi intervals from 11,200 μm down to 63 μm, with the remainder <63 μm recorded. The size-distribution of the finest (< 63 m) fractions was determined using a Micromeritics Saturn DigiSizer II digital particle size analyser, but solely utilised here to confirm that clay is present within the samples. The size of the sediment grains ranged from medium sand to clay and the sample content was categorised as one of these three main fractions: gravel, sand and mud. Clay content was included within the mud fraction. Additionally, d10, d50 and d90.were obtained using GRADISTAT software, and grain size distribution curves drawn for each sample, based on the sieved sample data.