{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Pryor EJ"],"funding":["Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions","Horizon 2020","Natural Environment Research Council"],"pagination":["102718"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11041909"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12"],"pubmed_abstract":["The isolation of specific grain size classes of lithogenic samples and biogenic carbonate from the <63 µm fraction (i.e. clay and silt) of marine sediment is often a prerequisite to further pre-treatments and/or analytical measurements for palaeoceanographic studies. Established techniques employed have included sieving, settling and micro-filtration (and/or a combination of these). However, these methods often use significant amounts of bulk sediment (often up to ∼3 g) and/or require considerable amounts of time during sediment processing (ranging from 48 h to 3 weeks) to isolate a size specific class for further analyses. Here, we build on previous approaches to isolate three grain size classes (e.g. <2 µm, clay; 2-10 µm, fine silt; and 10-63 µm, coarse silt) from the <63 µm fraction of "],"journal":["MethodsX"],"pubmed_title":["Recommended centrifuge method: Specific grain size separation in the <63 µm fraction of marine sediments."],"pmcid":["PMC11041909"],"funding_grant_id":["NE/L002434/1","885498"],"pubmed_authors":["Pryor EJ","van der Lubbe HJL","Hall IR","Simon MH","Tangunan D"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Recommended centrifuge method: Specific grain size separation in the <63 µm fraction of marine sediments.","description":"The isolation of specific grain size classes of lithogenic samples and biogenic carbonate from the <63 µm fraction (i.e. clay and silt) of marine sediment is often a prerequisite to further pre-treatments and/or analytical measurements for palaeoceanographic studies. Established techniques employed have included sieving, settling and micro-filtration (and/or a combination of these). However, these methods often use significant amounts of bulk sediment (often up to ∼3 g) and/or require considerable amounts of time during sediment processing (ranging from 48 h to 3 weeks) to isolate a size specific class for further analyses. Here, we build on previous approaches to isolate three grain size classes (e.g. <2 µm, clay; 2-10 µm, fine silt; and 10-63 µm, coarse silt) from the <63 µm fraction of ","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jun","modification":"2025-04-22T20:45:37.173Z","creation":"2025-04-06T03:15:42.721Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11041909","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38660037"],"doi":["10.1016/j.mex.2024.102718"]}}