An enhanced concentration of 60Fe was found in a deep ocean's crust in 2004
in a layer corresponding to an age of ~2 Myr. The confirmation of this signal
in terrestrial archives as supernova-induced and detection of other
supernova-produced radionuclides is of great interest. We have identified two
suitable marine sediment cores from the South Australian Basin and estimated
the intensity of a possible signal of the supernova-produced radionuclides
26Al, 53Mn, 60Fe and the pure r-process element 244Pu in these cores. A finding
of these radionuclides in a sediment core might allow to improve the time
resolution of the signal and thus to link the signal to a supernova event in
the solar vicinity ~2 Myr ago. Furthermore, it gives an insight on
nucleosynthesis scenarios in massive stars, the condensation into dust grains
and transport mechanisms from the supernova shell into the solar system
