Figures F1-F11
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F1. Location of Site 1063 on the Bermuda Rise in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
F2. Physical properties records at Hole 1063D.
F3. Repeated particle size analyses of bulk Sample 172-1063D-4H-4, 83–85 cm, during increasing sonication duration.
F4. Reproducibility of particle size analysis on different sample aliquots after gentle agitation without ultrasound.
F5. Downcore trends in mineralogy and chemistry compared to bulk density.
F6. Comparison of bulk sediment chemistry from Hole 1063D to that determined for core tops across the northwest Atlantic.
F7. Comparison of calcite, determined by XRD, and CaO, measured by XRF, on the same samples from Hole 1063D.
F8. Physical properties and particle size measurements across a short section of the study interval.
F9. Comparison of the biogenic silica content and the volume of sediment between 10 and 100 mm in bulk sediment.
F10. Scanning electron micrograph of sediment in the >63-mm fraction of Sample 172-1063D-4H-4, 72–74 cm.
F11.
A preliminary age model for the studied interval determined by comparing the
grayscale record at Site 1063 to the 
18O
record of ice from the well-dated Greenland Ice-core Project (GRIP) core.
T1. Known and measured content of quartz-silica mixtures.
T2. Mineralogical composition of bulk sediment from Hole 1063D determined by XRD.
T3. Chemical composition of the bulk sediment from Hole 1063D determined by XRF.
T4. Assumed chemical compositions of minerals at Site 1063.
T5. Comparison of elemental abundance derived from XRD and determined by XRF.
