Santa Barbara Basin Alkenones ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!! CONTRIBUTOR: Julie A. Kennedy, Stanford University IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 96-015 NAME OF DATA SET: Santa Barbara basin alkenones LAST UPDATE: 7/96 (Original receipt date by NOAA/ WDC-A Paleo) GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Santa Barbara basin, coastal California, 34 14'N, 120 01'W PERIOD OF RECORD: 1915-1988 A.D. DESCRIPTION: Annual variations in alkenone unsaturation in laminated sediments in the Santa Barbara basin reveal increases in water temperature which can be linked directly to the observed sequence of El Nino events in the twentieth century. Water temperatures calculated from Uk37 values correspond broadly to 20m water temperature data of the calCOFI program for 1953-1984. Full details of sampling and methodology are in the file methods.txt. ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Kennedy, J.A. and S.C. Brassell, 1992. Molecular records of twentieth-century El Nino events in laminated sediments from the Santa Barbara basin, Nature, v357, 7May 1992, pp62-64. SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Kennedy, J., 1996, Alkenone Unsaturation Data, Santa Barbara Basin. IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 96-015. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. Appendix A.1 Descriptions of samples collected from cores 10a, 10b and 9 from the Santa Barbara Basin. A Munsell soil color chart (5Y) was used for color descriptions, which ranged from shades of sandy yellow (6/3, 5/3, 5/4) to olive and gray-green (4/1, 4/2), gray (3/1, 3/2), and charcoal to black (2.5/1). The number of rotations of the worm gear required to bring the surface back to the zero position (i.e. even with the lip of the core liner) after removal of a layer is given by the # Turns category. One rotation extrudes the core 3.19mm. 10A Sample # Munsell Chart Color Other Description # Turns 1 5/3 sparse white dots 2 5/3 shells or forams 2 3 5/3 2.5 4 5/4 with 2.5/1 1 5 4/3 with 2.5/2 mostly 4/3 1 6 4/3 & 2.5/1 a few white dots 1 7 5/3 "less watery very fine grained" 2 8 5/3 "coarser filamentous" 2 9 4/3 & 2.5/1 mottled 2 10 2.5/1 with 4/3 small 4/3 1 11 4/1 1.5 12 2.5/1 2 13 2.5/1 1 14 3/1 1.5 15 4/2 &3/1 mottled 1 16 2.5/1 1 17 4/1 & 2.5/1 mottled 1 18 4/1 1 19 4/1 grainy appearance 1 20 4/2 sparse white dots 1 21 2.5/1 1 22 4/1 with 2.5/1 mottled 1 23 4/1 1 24 4/1 with 2.5/1 1 25 2.5/1 1 26 4/1 with 2.5/1 1 27 2.5/1 some 4/2 mottled 1 28 5/3 with 4/1 1 29 4/1 1 30 4/1 1 31 5/3 2 32 2.5/1 1 33 5/3 0.5 34 3/1 & 4/1 mottled 0.5 35 2.5/1 grainy orange material 1 36 2.5/1 "white dots forams" 1 37 2.5/1 & 4/1 "mottled white dots" 1 38 5/3 & 4/1 1 39 2.5/1 1 40 5/3 & small 2.5/1 very thin 5/3 layer 1 41 2.5/1 0.5 42 5/3 & small 2.5/1 1 43 5/3 & 2.5/1 mottled with forams 1 44 2.5/1 & some 4/1 1.5 45 4/1 "white spots forams gastropods?" 1 46 4/1 with 2.5/1 1 47 "sample bag torn #47 not used" 48 4/1 & 2.5/1 forams & gastropods? 1.5 49 4/1 & 5/2 mottled with forams 1 50 5/3 & 4/1 mottled 1 51 5/3 1 52 2.5/1 & 5/3 1 53 2.5/1 small 5/3 1 54 3/1 1 55 3/1 1 56 4/2 1 57 4/2 1 58 2.5/1 with 5/4 1 59 2.5/1 with 5/4 1 60 2.5/1 small 5/4 1 61 3/1 very homogeneous 1 62 3/1 very homogeneous 1.5 63 5/4 0.5 64 2.5/1 spots of 4/2 1 65 2.5/1 spots of 4/2 1 66 2.5/1 1 67 3/1 1 68 3/1 1 69 3/1 1 70 3/1 1 71 5/4 1 72 5/4 fish scales 1 73 3/2 spots of 5/4 1 74 5/4 spots of 3/2 1 75 5/4 1 76 5/4 1 77 3/1 spots 2.5/1 big forams 1 78 3/1 1 79 3/1 1 80 3/1 & 5/4 1 81 5/4 big forams 1 82 2.5/1 & small 5/4 1 83 4/2 0.5 84 5/4 0.5 85 2.5/2 1 86 5/4 0.5 87 5/4 0.5 88 2.5/1 spots of 5/4 1 89 5/4 with 3/1 1 90 3/1 with 2.5/1 1 91 5/4 with spots of 2.5/1 0.5 92 5/4 with 2.5/1 0.5 93 2.5/1 0.5 94 4/2 0.5 95 3/1 1 96 3/1 with 2.5/1 1 97 5/4 with 3/1 1 98 3/1 1 99 5/4 1 100 3/1 0.5