# Buccoo Reef - Stable Isotope and Luminescence Data #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # NOTE: Please cite Publication, and Online_Resource and date accessed when using these data. # If there is no publication information, please cite Investigators, Title, and Online_Resource and date accessed. # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1924 # # Original_Source_URL: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/atlantic/buccoo2006.txt # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # Archive: Corals and Sclerosponges #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2007-02-01 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Buccoo Reef - Stable Isotope and Luminescence Data #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Moses, C.S.; Swart, P.K. #-------------------- # Description_and_Notes # Description: #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Moses, C.S.; Swart, P.K. # Published_Date_or_Year: 2006 # Published_Title: Stable isotope and growth records in corals from the island of Tobago: Not simply a record of the Orinoco. # Journal_Name: Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium (Okinawa) # Volume: # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: 580-587 # DOI: # Online_Resource: # Full_Citation: Moses, C.S. and P.K. Swart. 2006. Stable isotope and growth records in corals from the island of Tobago: Not simply a record of the Orinoco. Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium (Okinawa):580-587 # Abstract: The geochemical composition of skeletons from corals growing around the island of Tobago is impacted by several environmental forcing factors. This project studied the stable oxygen and carbon isotopic composition, extension, skeletal luminescence, and the carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of organic material contained in skeletons of the scleractinian corals Montastraea faveolata and Siderastrea siderea living at a relatively shallow depth (2-14 m) at Tobago. On an annual basis, the Orinoco River delivers organics-laden, lower salinity waters into the tropical North Atlantic where currents carry it north and west to Tobago and the eastern Caribbean. In addition, the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) interacts with sea surface temperature (SST) and Venezuelan precipitation affecting the annual Orinoco floods. The wide-ranging effects of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) also extend over South America and into the tropical North Atlantic. All these factors are suggested to influence the d18O of the coral skeletons, which is not simplistically related to either SST or the discharge of Orinoco. These forcing factors, each with independent oscillations in strength and phase, interact to produce a complex geochemical signal in Tobago coral skeletons. #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: # Grant: #------------------ # Site_Information # Site_Name: Buccoo Reef, Tobago # Location: Ocean>Atlantic Ocean>North Atlantic Ocean>Caribbean Sea>Trinidad And Tobago # Country: Trinidad And Tobago # Northernmost_Latitude: 11.17 # Southernmost_Latitude: 11.17 # Easternmost_Longitude: -60.85 # Westernmost_Longitude: -60.85 # Elevation: -4 m #------------------ # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: 06trin04a # Earliest_Year: 1954 # Most_Recent_Year: 1990 # Time_Unit: AD # Core_Length: # Notes: #------------------ # Species # Species_Name: Montastraea faveolata # Common_Name: #------------------ # Chronology_Information # Chronology: # #---------------- # Variables # # Data variables follow that are preceded by "##" in columns one and two. # Data line variables format: Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-longname-tab-longname components (9 components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) # ##age age, , ,years AD, , , , ,N ##ext extension rate, Montastraea faveolata, , mm/yr, , Corals and Sclerosponges, , ,N ##ext_sd extension rate, Montastraea faveolata, one standard deviation , mm/yr, , Corals and Sclerosponges, , ,N # #---------------- # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header # Missing Values: NAN age ext ext_sd 1990 2.64 0.2970 1989 2.865 0.0071 1988 3.765 1.2092 1987 3.305 0.1626 1986 2.975 0.1202 1985 3.16 0.4667 1984 3.355 0.3889 1983 3.23 0.3536 1982 3.135 0.6010 1981 2.67 0.2263 1980 3.17 0.3111 1979 4.17 1.2021 1978 3.25 0.2970 1977 3.645 0.1909 1976 2.65 0.5374 1975 3.045 0.2616 1974 3.24 0.8344 1973 3.63 0.1697 1972 3.465 0.8132 1971 3.275 0.3041 1970 3.3 0.7071 1969 3.065 0.5303 1968 3.32 0.1414 1967 2.685 0.4031 1966 4.265 0.2758 1965 2.56 1.0465 1964 3.03 1.8243 1963 3.575 0.0212 1962 3.425 0.4738 1961 3.475 0.6859 1960 3.155 0.1485 1959 2.995 2.0577 1958 4.055 0.3465 1957 3.565 0.0636 1956 3.095 0.1768 1955 2.91 0.0566 1954 2.63 0.1556