Dataset: Southern Ocean deep-sea fossil coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) nitrogen isotopes
Deployment: NBP1103

Deep-sea fossil coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) nitrogen isotopes
Principal Investigator: 
Maria Prokopenko (Pomona College, Pomona)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Daniel M. Sigman (Princeton University)
Contact: 
Xingchen Wang (California Institute of Technology, Caltech)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Deployment Synonyms:
 NBP11-03
Data URL:
 https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/692815/data

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Description

This dataset contains d15N isotope data from fossil scleractinian coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) samples.  Coral age from radiocarbon dating and Uranium-Thorium dating, sample depth, latitude, and longitude are also included. Deep-sea corals used in this study were collected from (1) sea-mounts south of Tasmania during cruise TN-228 in 2008–2009 on the R/V Thompson; and (2) the Drake Passage from May to June 2011 during cruise NBP1103 on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer.

These data were published in:

Wang, X. T., Sigman, D. M., Prokopenko, M. G., Adkins, J. F., Robinson, L. F., Hines, S. K., ... & Haug, G. H. (2017). Deep-sea coral evidence for lower Southern Ocean surface nitrate concentrations during the last ice age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201615718. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615718114

Related dataset also from this publication:

d15N and age data from this dataset were used in the dataset:
Average coral nitrogen isotope records generated using Monte Carlo and Kalman Filters

 

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