(Table T1) Carbon geochemistry and coarse fraction content of ODP Sites 184-1143 and 184-1146 sediments

The goal during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 184 was to reconstruct the long-term paleoenvironmental variability of the South China Sea (SCS) and the adjacent Asian continent. In the paleoceanographic proxies, the amounts of inorganic and organic carbon that have accumulated in sediment are fundamental measurements of paleoproductivity (e.g., Meyers, 1997, doi:10.1016/S0146-6380(97)00049-1). These proxy indicators are mainly controlled by surface water productivity and/or sediment preservation. In this report, we augmented shipboard data with coarse-fraction contents (weight percentage of particles >63 µm) from Sites 1143 and 1146. In addition, we compared the data from these two sites to determine the differences in paleoenvironment between the southern and northern parts of the SCS.