Environmental variables database from a Miocene marine stratigraphic section: a multivariate statistical analysis

Abstract

The data presented here are related to the research article “Miocene Atlantic transgressive-regressive events in northeastern and offshore Patagonia: A palynological perspective” (Guler et al. 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103239). A total of 60 drilled cutting samples from a 580 m-thick subsurface stratigraphic section (YPF.Ch.PV.es-1 borehole) in Península Valdés, Chubut Province, Argentina, collected every 10 m, were processed for palynological analysis. The quantitative data were statistically evaluated. In detail, the database contain: 1) raw palynological data – proxy data – from counting under transmitted light microscope; 2) four paleoenvironmental variables selected to conduct a multivariate analysis: terrestrial/marine ratio, acritarchs, outer neritic dinocyst taxa and warm-water dinocyst taxa; 3) transformed variables used for the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and 4) the principal component scores obtained, stratigraphically ordered from the top to bottom of the borehole. Data from future studies in new sites combined with here presented data, can be useful to refine paleoenvironment models applied to basin analysis.