Deciphering Color Reflectance Data of a 520‐kyr Sediment Core From the Southern Ocean: Method Application and Paleoenvironmental Implications

Sediment color reflectance contains important information on paleoenvironmental changes. Such data are routinely measured on sediment cores from the Southern Ocean. Their usefulness, however, is undervalued. Here for the first time, color reflectance of an ~520‐kyr sediment core retrieved off Prydz Bay (East Antarctica) was intensively investigated to correlate sediment color changes to changes in sediment compositions. Total carbon, total...