IODP Expedition 382, Site U1537, X-ray image logger (XSCAN) images

The dataset contains digital X-ray images of marine sediment cores from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 382, Site U1537. Cores U1537D-24H to 50F were scanned with the IODP X-ray Image Logger (XSCAN) at the Gulf Core Repository at Texas A&M University in January 2023 just after the XSCAN instrument had been commissioned and before it was shipped out to the laboratory aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel. ODP Site U1537 lies in the southern Scotia Sea at 59°6.6597'S, 40°54.3677'W, in 3713 m water depth (Weber et al., 2019, 2022; Jasper et al., 2025). We took X-ray scans to investigate ice-rafted debris (IRD) at this site in the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene (Mossell, 2025). IRD is evident as dark spots in the images (dark colors represent dense material).