Rock magnetic fingerprint of Mt. Etna volcanic ash: the dataset

This dataset refers to the article: "Rock magnetic fingerprint of Mt. Etna volcanic ash" by the same authors, published in Geophysical Journal International, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac213. A detailed rock magnetic study was conducted on ash samples collected from different products erupted during explosive activity of Mount Etna, Italy, in order to test the use of magnetic properties as discriminating factors among them, and their explosive character in particular. Samples include tephra emplaced during the last 18 ka: the benmoreitic Plinian eruptions of the Pleistocene Ellittico activity from marine core ET97-70 (Ionian Sea) and the basaltic Holocene FG eruption (122 BC), the Strombolian/Phreatomagmatic/sub-Plinian eruptions (namely, the Holocene TV, FS, FL, ETP products, and the 1990, 1998 eruptions) collected from the slope of the volcano, and the Recent explosive activity (lava fountains referred to as “Ash Rich Jets and Plumes”, or ARJP) that occurred in the 2001-2002 period, related to flank eruptions. A full set of rock magnetic experiments were carried out to determine the magnetic mineralogy and the magnetic grain size at the Institute for Rock Magnetism at the University of Minnesota, including First-Order Reversal Curves (FORCs), hysteresis loops and backfield DC demagnetization remanence curves (DCD or Backfield curves) at room temperature on Princeton Measurements Corporation (Princeton, NJ) Vibrating Sample Magnetometers (VSMs). Low temperature (LT) experiments were conducted on Quantum Design (San Diego, CA) Magnetic Properties Measurement Systems (MPMS-XL and 5S). LT experiments were carried out by measuring the magnetic remanence on warming from 10 K to room temperature (300 K) after cooling in a 2.5 T field (field cooled remanence, FC), as well as after cooling in zero field and applying a saturation isothermal remanent magnetization (SIRM) of 2.5 T at 10 K (zero-field cooled remanence, ZFC). A room temperature (RT) 2.5 T SIRM was also applied at 300 K and the remanence was measured upon temperature cycling to 10 K and back (RTSIRM). AC susceptibility as a function of temperature and frequency (1, 10, 100 Hz or 1, 5, 32, 178, 1000 Hz) was also measured for selected specimens from the three groups of samples. Room temperature susceptibility measurements as a function of field amplitude (10, 20, 40, 80, 120, 200, 400 A/m) were carried out on the Late Pleistocene samples using a Magnon susceptibility system. Saturation magnetization on warming between room temperature and 700°C (Ms-T) was measured on selected specimens using a horizontal Curie balance with Argon gas circulation to limit oxidation processes during heating. Likewise, magnetic susceptibility on warming between room temperature and 700°C (X-T) was measured on a Kappabridge KLY-2 (Brno, Czech Republic) using fields of 300 A/m and 920 Hz. Ms-T and X-T curves are collectively referred to as thermomagnetic curves.Excel files with all the magnetic properties and parameters measured at IRM, divided according to the age of the samples. The excel files are organized into multiple tabs: Specimen Info; measurement_history; MPMS_suscep; high_T susceptibility; hysteresis properties; hysteresis measurements; VSM backfield measurements and MPMSdc measurements, respectively. The measurement units are reported in row#1 Projects and/or Awards/Grants are GNV Project 1999-2001 and IRM Fellowshi