Clay mineralogy of debris from the basal ice of the Byrd ice core, central West Antarctica

<p>This dataset contains the clay mineral assemblage of debris melted from three intervals of basal ice from the Byrd ice core. Analyses were conducted on the &lt;2 micron fraction. The ice core the debris was extracted from was drilled at 80<i><strong>°</strong></i>&nbsp;0.1'S, 119<i><strong>°</strong></i> 31.0'W at Byrd Station, West Antarctica, in January 1968.</p>