Keywords: altitudinal transect; Amazon headwaters; Branched and isoprenoid tetraether index; Branched GDGTs; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ia, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ib, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ic, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIa, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIa', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIb, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIb', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIc, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIc', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIa, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIa', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIb, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIb', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIc, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIc', fractional abundance; Calculated from linear regression; Carbon, organic, total; Cyclization ratio of branched tetraethers; Degree of cyclisation; derived from pH; ELEVATION; in-situ production; Isomer ratio; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Madre_de_Dios_River_System; Madre de Dios River; MULT; Multiple investigations; Peru; pH, soil; Sample comment; Sample ID; soil inputs; Specific surface area; Sum branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, per unit sediment mass; Suspended sediment concentration; Temperature, annual mean

Keywords: AGE; Bay of Bengal; Branched and isoprenoid tetraether index; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ia, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ib, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Ic, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIa, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIa', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIb, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIb', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIc, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIc', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIa, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIa', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIb, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIb', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIc, fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, IIIc', fractional abundance; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, per unit mass total organic carbon; brGDGT; Calculated according to Kim et al. (2010); Carbon, organic, total; CDRILL; Core drilling; Crenarchaeol, fractional abundance; Crenarchaeol regio-isomer, fractional abundance; Curator/sampler; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Description; Godavari River; Holocene; India National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 01; Indian Summer Monsoon; isoGDGT; Isoprenoid acyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, fractional abundance; Isoprenoid dicyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, fractional abundance; Isoprenoid monocyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, fractional abundance; Isoprenoid tricyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, fractional abundance; Joides Resolution; NGHP-01; NGHP-01-16A; Sample ID; Sea surface temperature; Sediment core; Tetraether index of 86 carbon atoms; Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC; Agilent 1260 Infinity) coupled to a single quadrupole mass detector (Agilent 6130)