# 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: 06trin01a # Earliest_Year: 1927 # Most_Recent_Year: 1990 # Time_Unit: AD # Core_Length: # Notes: #------------------ # Species # Species_Name: Montastaea 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 ##d18O delta 18O, Montastaea faveolata, , permil VPDB, , Corals and Sclerosponges, , ,N ##d13C delta 13C, Montastaea faveolata, , permil VPDB, , 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 d18O d13C 1990 -4.1650 -2.2900 1989 -4.3400 -2.0975 1988 -4.1175 -1.9900 1987 -4.2375 -2.0325 1986 -4.4175 -1.7675 1985 -4.7750 -2.9525 1984 -4.2025 -2.8050 1983 -3.6625 -1.0375 1982 -3.6400 -0.8900 1981 -3.9050 -1.1650 1980 -4.3825 -2.2375 1979 -4.3225 -2.2750 1978 -4.6725 -2.1750 1977 -4.0400 -1.9225 1976 -4.3225 -1.6200 1975 -4.7375 -2.7350 1974 -4.6250 -2.8250 1973 -4.2700 -1.6575 1972 -4.0400 -1.9475 1971 -3.7525 -1.2450 1970 -4.1700 -1.5400 1969 -4.5500 -2.2625 1968 -3.9075 -1.0500 1967 -4.1575 -2.1225 1966 -3.7625 -1.0100 1965 -4.3925 -2.1425 1964 -3.9125 -1.1850 1963 -3.6725 -0.9950 1962 -4.0225 -1.8100 1961 -4.1525 -1.7175 1960 -3.7775 -0.8425 1959 -3.4000 -0.4400 1958 -3.8875 -1.0900 1957 -4.1400 -1.8125 1956 -4.3525 -2.2525 1955 -4.2150 -1.9600 1954 -4.1150 -1.9725 1953 -4.0425 -1.6175 1952 -4.1100 -1.3300 1951 -3.9525 -1.1350 1950 -3.8000 -1.4325 1949 -3.6525 -0.9975 1948 -3.8650 -1.3900 1947 -3.8650 -1.5100 1946 -3.7275 -1.4200 1945 -3.5375 -1.1850 1944 -3.4000 -0.6425 1943 -3.2450 -0.3950 1942 -3.5400 -0.9575 1941 -3.6700 -1.2475 1940 -3.5200 -0.8000 1939 -3.4825 -0.7350 1938 -3.7125 -1.3675 1937 -3.8725 -1.2375 1936 -3.9775 -1.7950 1935 -4.3525 -2.0525 1934 -4.1850 -1.7225 1933 -3.8900 -1.3025 1932 -3.6075 -0.3950 1931 -4.0400 -1.3000 1930 -4.0075 -1.3750 1929 -3.8650 -1.3575 1928 -3.8650 -1.1950 1927 -4.0675 -1.9950