Dataset
Data Publication
Data supplement to: Chemistry and Microbiology of the Critical Zone along a steep climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera
Oeser, Ralf Andreas | Stroncik, Nicole | Moskwa, Lisa-Marie | Bernhard, Nadine | Schaller, Mirjam | Canessa, Rafaella | van den Brink, Liesbeth | Köster, Moritz | Brucker, Emanuel | Stock, Svenja | Fuentes, Juan Pablo | Godoy, Roberto | Matus, Francisco Javier | Oses Pedraza, Rómulo | Osses McIntyre, Pablo | Paulino, Leandro | Seguel, Oscar | Bader, Maaike Y. | Boy, Jens | Dippold, Michaela A. | Ehlers, Todd A. | Kühn, Peter | Kuzyakov, Yakov | Leinweber, Peter | Scholten, Thomas | Spielvogel, Sandra | Spohn, Marie | Übernickel, Kirstin | Tielbörger, Katja | Wagner, Dirk | von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm
GFZ Data Services
(2018)
Descriptions
The Chilean Coastal Cordillera features a spectacular climate and vegetation gradient, ranging from arid and unvegetated areas in the north to humid and forested areas in the south. The DFG Priority Program "EarthShape" (Earth Surface Shaping by Biota) uses this natural gradient to investigate how climate and biological processes shape the Earth's surface. We explored the critical zone, the Earth's uppermost layer, in four key sites located in desert, semidesert, mediterranean, and temperate climate zones of the Coastal Cordillera, with the focus on weathering of granitic rock. Here, we present first results from four ~2m-deep regolith profiles to document: (1) architecture of weathering zone; (2) degree and rate of rock weathering, thus the release of mineral-derived nutrients to the terrestrial ecosystems; (3) denudation rates; and (4) microbial abundances of bacteria and archaea in the saprolite. From north to south, denudation rates from cosmogenic nuclides are ~10 t km-2 yr-1 at the arid Pan de Azúcar site, ~20 t km-2 yr-1 at the semi-arid site of Santa Gracia, ~60 t km-2 yr-1 at the mediterranean climate site of La Campana, and ~30 t km-2 yr-1 at the humid site of Nahuelbuta. A and B horizons increase in thickness and elemental depletion or enrichment increases from north (~26 °S) to south (~38 °S) in these horizons. Differences in the degree of chemical weathering, quantified by the chemical depletion fraction (CDF), are significant only between the arid and sparsely vegetated site and the other three sites. Differences in the CDF between the sites, and elemental depletion within the sites are sometimes smaller than the variations induced by the bedrock heterogeneity. Microbial abundances (bacteria and archaea) in saprolite substantially increase from the arid to the semi-arid sites. With this study, we provide a comprehensive dataset characterizing the Critical Zone geochemistry in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera. This dataset confirms climatic controls on weathering and denudation rates and provides prerequisites to quantify the role of biota in future studies. The data are supplementary material to Oeser et al. (2018). All samples are assigned with International Geo Sample Numbers (IGSN), a globally unique and persistent Identifier for physical samples. The IGSNs are provided in the data tables and link to a comprehensive sample description in the internet. The content of the eight data tables is: Table S1: Catena properties of the four primary EarthShape study areas. Table S2: Major and selected trace element concentration for bedrock samples. Table S3 Normative modal abundance of rock-forming minerals. Table S4: Major and selected trace element concentration for regolith samples and dithionite and oxalate soluble pedogenic oxides. Table S5: Weathering indices CDF and CIA, and the mass transfer coefficients (τ) for major and trace elements along with volumetric strain (ɛ). Table S6: Chemical weathering and physical erosion rates Table S7: Relative microbial abundances in saprolite of the four study areas. Table S8: Uncorrected major and trace element concentration. The data tables are provided as one Excel file with eight spreadsheets, as individual tables in .csv format in a zipped archive and as printable PDF versions in a zipped archive.
The DFG Priority Program 1803 "EarthShape - Earth Surface Shaping by Biota" (2016-2022) bridges between scientific disciplines and includes geoscientists and biologists to study from different viewpoints the complex question how microorganisms, animals, and plants influence the shape and development of the Earth’s surface over time scales from the present-day to the distant geologic past. All study sites are located in the north-to-south trending Coastal Cordillera mountains of Chile, South America. These sites span from the Atacama Desert in the north to the Araucaria forests approximately 1300 km to the south. The site selection contains a large ecological and climate gradient ranging from very dry to humid climate conditions.
Keywords
Originally assigned keywords
denudation
microbial abundance
Chile
climate
National Parc Pan de Azucar
Private Reserve Santa Gracia
National Parc La Campana
National Parc Nahuelbuta
Coastal Cordillera
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > EROSION
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION > WEATHERING
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > MICROFLORA
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL CHEMISTRY
MSL enriched keywords
igneous rock - intrusive
acidic intrusive
granite
Measured property
strain
Measured property
strain
analysis
microchemical analysis
trace elements
whole rock analysis
trace elements
Metadata
MSL enriched sub domains
rock and melt physics
analogue modelling of geologic processes
geochemistry
Resource Type
Source publisher
| GFZ Data Services |
DOI
| 10.5880/gfz.3.3.2018.001 |
Creators
| Oeser, Ralf Andreas |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Stroncik, Nicole |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Moskwa, Lisa-Marie |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Bernhard, Nadine |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Schaller, Mirjam |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Canessa, Rafaella |
| Personal |
| Philipps-University Marburg; Ecological Plant Geography, Marburg, Germany |
| van den Brink, Liesbeth |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Plant Ecology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Köster, Moritz |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Brucker, Emanuel |
| Personal |
| University of Bayreuth, Institute of Soil Ecology, Bayreuth, Germany |
| Stock, Svenja |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Fuentes, Juan Pablo |
| Personal |
| Universidad de Chile; Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Godoy, Roberto |
| Personal |
| Universidad Austral de Chile; Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Valdivia, Chile |
| Matus, Francisco Javier |
| Personal |
| Universidad de La Frontera, Departamento de Ciencias Químicas y Recursos Naturales, Scientific and Technological Bioresource Nucleus (BIOREN-UFRO), Temuco, Chile |
| Oses Pedraza, Rómulo |
| Personal |
| Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA), La Serena, Chile |
| Osses McIntyre, Pablo |
| Personal |
| Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Instituto de Geografía, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Paulino, Leandro |
| Personal |
| Universidad de Concepción; Departamento de Suelos y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Agronomía, Concepción, Chile |
| Seguel, Oscar |
| Personal |
| Universidad de Chile; Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Bader, Maaike Y. |
| Personal |
| Philipps-University Marburg; Ecological Plant Geography, Marburg, Germany |
| Boy, Jens |
| Personal |
| Leibniz University Hannover; Institute of Soil Science, Hannover, Germany |
| Dippold, Michaela A. |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Ehlers, Todd A. |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Kühn, Peter |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Kuzyakov, Yakov |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Leinweber, Peter |
| Personal |
| University of Rostock; Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Soil Science, Rostock, Germany |
| Scholten, Thomas |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Spielvogel, Sandra |
| Personal |
| Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany |
| Spohn, Marie |
| Personal |
| University of Bayreuth, Institute of Soil Ecology, Bayreuth, Germany |
| Übernickel, Kirstin |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Tielbörger, Katja |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Plant Ecology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Wagner, Dirk |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany | University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany |
| von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany | Freie Universität Berlin; Institute of Geological Science, Berlin, Germany |
Contributors
| Oeser, Ralf Andreas |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Oeser, Ralf Andreas |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Stroncik, Nicole |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Moskwa, Lisa-Marie |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany |
| Bernhard, Nadine |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Schaller, Mirjam |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Canessa, Rafaella |
| Personal |
| Philipps-University Marburg; Ecological Plant Geography, Marburg, Germany |
| van den Brink, Liesbeth |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Plant Ecology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Köster, Moritz |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Brucker, Emanuel |
| Personal |
| University of Bayreuth, Institute of Soil Ecology, Bayreuth, Germany |
| Stock, Svenja |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Fuentes, Juan Pablo |
| Personal |
| Universidad de Chile; Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Godoy, Roberto |
| Personal |
| Universidad Austral de Chile; Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Valdivia, Chile |
| Matus, Francisco Javier |
| Personal |
| Universidad de La Frontera, Departamento de Ciencias Químicas y Recursos Naturales, Scientific and Technological Bioresource Nucleus (BIOREN-UFRO), Temuco, Chile |
| Oses Pedraza, Rómulo |
| Personal |
| Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA), La Serena, Chile |
| Osses McIntyre, Pablo |
| Personal |
| Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Instituto de Geografía, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Paulino, Leandro |
| Personal |
| Universidad de Concepción; Departamento de Suelos y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Agronomía, Concepción, Chile |
| Seguel, Oscar |
| Personal |
| Universidad de Chile; Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Bader, Maaike Y. |
| Personal |
| Philipps-University Marburg; Ecological Plant Geography, Marburg, Germany |
| Bader, Maaike Y. |
| Personal |
| Philipps-University Marburg; Ecological Plant Geography, Marburg, Germany |
| Boy, Jens |
| Personal |
| Leibniz University Hannover; Institute of Soil Science, Hannover, Germany |
| Boy, Jens |
| Personal |
| Leibniz University Hannover; Institute of Soil Science, Hannover, Germany |
| Dippold, Michaela A. |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Dippold, Michaela A. |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Ehlers, Todd A. |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Ehlers, Todd A. |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Kühn, Peter |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Kühn, Peter |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Kuzyakov, Yakov |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Kuzyakov, Yakov |
| Personal |
| Georg-August-University Göttingen; Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Leinweber, Peter |
| Personal |
| University of Rostock; Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Soil Science, Rostock, Germany |
| Leinweber, Peter |
| Personal |
| University of Rostock; Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Soil Science, Rostock, Germany |
| Scholten, Thomas |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Scholten, Thomas |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Soil Science and Geomorphology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Spielvogel, Sandra |
| Personal |
| Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany |
| Spielvogel, Sandra |
| Personal |
| Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany |
| Spohn, Marie |
| Personal |
| University of Bayreuth, Institute of Soil Ecology, Bayreuth, Germany |
| Spohn, Marie |
| Personal |
| University of Bayreuth, Institute of Soil Ecology, Bayreuth, Germany |
| Übernickel, Kirstin |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Übernickel, Kirstin |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany |
| Tielbörger, Katja |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Plant Ecology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Tielbörger, Katja |
| Personal |
| University of Tübingen; Plant Ecology, Tübingen, Germany |
| Wagner, Dirk |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany | University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany |
| Wagner, Dirk |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany | University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany |
| von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany | Freie Universität Berlin; Institute of Geological Science, Berlin, Germany |
| von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany | Freie Universität Berlin; Institute of Geological Science, Berlin, Germany |
| Oeser, Ralf A. |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences; Section 3.3 Earth Surface Geochemistry |
| Von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm |
| Personal |
| GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences; Section 3.3 Earth Surface Geochemistry; Freie Universität Berlin; Institute of Geological Science |
Citation
Oeser, R. A., Stroncik, N., Moskwa, L.-M., Bernhard, N., Schaller, M., Canessa, R., van den Brink, L., Köster, M., Brucker, E., Stock, S., Fuentes, J. P., Godoy, R., Matus, F. J., Oses Pedraza, R., Osses McIntyre, P., Paulino, L., Seguel, O., Bader, M. Y., Boy, J., … von Blanckenburg, F. (2018). Data supplement to: Chemistry and Microbiology of the Critical Zone along a steep climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2018.001
References
| URL |
| References |
Dates
| Issued | 2018 |
Language
en
Funding References
| Funder Name | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| Funder Identifier | https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 |
| Award Title | SPP Earth Shape |
Rights
| Name | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| URI | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Identifier | cc-by-4.0 |
| Identifier Scheme | SPDX |
| Scheme URI | https://spdx.org/licenses/ |
Locations
Geo location(s)
Parque Nacional Pan de Azúcar
Private Reserve Santa Gracia, Chile
Parque Nacional La Campana
Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta
EarthShape Study Area (Chilean Coastal Cordillera)