Data Release
Multi-species Coral Sr/Ca Based Sea-Surface Temperature Reconstruction Data Using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
By Jennifer A. Flannery1, Julie N. Richey1, Kaustubh Thirumalai2,3, Richard Z. Poore1, and Kristine L. DeLong4
1 United States Geological Survey, 600 4th St. South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA, jflannery@usgs.gov, jrichey@usgs.gov
2 Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Building 196, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, Texas 78758, USA, kau@ig.utexas.edu
3 Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C9000, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
4 Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA, kdelong@lsu.edu
Summary
New sub annual and mean annual Sr/Ca records from two species of massive coral, Orbicella faveolata (coral B3) and Siderastrea siderea (coral CG2), from the Dry Tortugas National Park, FL (DRTO). Both corals have well-constrained chronologies, with coral B3 ranging from 1893-2008 and coral CG2 ranging from 1837-2012. We combine these new records with published Sr/Ca data from three additional S. siderea coral colonies (DeLong et al., 2014) to generate a 278-year-long multi-species composite Sr/Ca-SST record from DRTO. This new record from a region sensitive to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) variations provides insight into the link between the two systems. Also included are new annual linear extension rates for each species. The coral samples and derived data were collected under the National Park Service Scientific Research and Collecting permits DRTO-2008-SCI-0015 and DRT0-2012-SCI-0001; accession numbers DRTO-241 and DRTO-353. For further information regarding data collection and/or processing methods refer to: Flannery, J. A., J. N. Richey, K. Thirumalai, R. Z. Poore, and K. L. DeLong, 2016, Multi-species coral Sr/Ca based sea-surface temperature reconstruction using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from the Florida Straits, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, ISSN 0031-0182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.10.022.
Data
| File Name and Description | Metadata (XML format) | Metadata (text format) | Download File |
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| DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_1837_2012.zip Sub annual and mean annual Sr/Ca values, annual linear extension rates, and composite SST data for coral cores CG2 (Siderastrea siderea) and B3 (Orbicella faveolata) from the Dry Tortugas National Park (.csv, .xlsx) |
DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_ 1837_2012_metadata.xml |
DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_ 1837_2012_metadata.txt |
DryTortugas_Sr_Ca_SeaSurfaceTemps_ 1837_2012.zip (138 KB) |
Figure 1. Map of the Dry Tortugas National Park (82°W, 24°N). The locations of coral cores are indicated on the map by yellow stars. A core was collected from the living Orbicella faveolata coral colony B3 at Pulaski Shoal in August 2008. The core from the living Siderastrea siderea colony CG2 was collected in March 2012 from Pulaski Shoal. Inset: Map of Florida (USA) with a box around the Dry Tortugas National Park.
Suggested Citation
Flannery, J.A., J.N. Richey, K. Thirumalai, R.Z. Poore, and K.L. DeLong, 2016, Multi-species coral Sr/Ca based sea-surface temperature reconstruction data using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CC0XS9.