# Dominican Republic Late Miocene Fossil Coral Stable Isotope Data #---------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #---------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 4.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite original publication, NOAA Landing Page URL, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, study title, NOAA Landing Page URL, and date accessed. # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # NOAA_Landing_Page: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/22050 # Landing_Page_Description: NOAA Landing Page of this file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Study_Level_JSON_Metadata: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/json/noaa-coral-22050.json # Study_Level_JSON_Description: JSON metadata of this data file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Data_Type: Corals and Sclerosponges # # Dataset_DOI: 10.25921/wcjx-a214 # # Science_Keywords: #-------------------- # Resource_Links # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/caribbean/cibao2017iso2res-noaa.txt # Data_Download_Description: NOAA Template File; Cibao Valley Corallite 2 Oxygen Isotope Residuals By Time # #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2017-05-01 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2025-08-27 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Dominican Republic Late Miocene Fossil Coral Stable Isotope Data #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Weiss, T.L.(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1373-8536); Denniston, R.F.(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6346-1221); Wanamaker, A.D.(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-6420); Villarini, G.(https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9566-2370); von der Heydt, A.S. #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: Fossil coral stable isotope (d18O and d13C) data from 2 corallites collected from the Miocene Gurabo Formation, Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic. Provided Keywords: sea surface temperature, Caribbean, ENSO, coral #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Thomas L. Weiss, Rhawn F. Denniston, Alan D. Wanamaker, Jr., Gabriele Villarini, and Anna S. von der Heydt # Journal_Name: Geology # Published_Title: El Nino-Southern Oscillation-like variability in a late Miocene Caribbean coral # Published_Date_or_Year: 2017 # Volume: 45 # Issue: 7 # Pages: 643-646 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1130/G38796.1 # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Reconstructions of Pliocene sea-surface temperature (SST) gradients and thermocline depths suggest that the zonal temperature gradient of the tropical Pacific was distinct from the modern. However, the nature of any El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability superimposed on this mean state is difficult to determine. We developed monthly resolved multidecadal stable isotopic time series from an extremely well preserved central Caribbean coral dating to the Miocene-Pliocene transition, prior to closure of the Central American Seaway (CAS). Paleoceanographic modeling suggests that the flow of water associated with El Nino and La Nina events through the CAS allowed Caribbean corals to record the ENSO-related SST anomalies. Spectral analysis of coral oxygen isotope ratios reveals periodicities similar to modern ENSO signatures, suggesting that ENSO-like variability characterized the Miocene-Pliocene transition. #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: US National Science Foundation # Grant: OCE-1536440 #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: American Chemical Society # Grant: Petroleum Research Fund #-------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic # Location: Dominican Republic # Northernmost_Latitude: 19.5 # Southernmost_Latitude: 19.5 # Easternmost_Longitude: -71.15 # Westernmost_Longitude: -71.15 # Elevation_m: #-------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: CibaoCorallite2res # First_Year: 5520000 # Last_Year: 5520000 # Time_Unit: cal yr BP # Core_Length_m: # Parameter_Keywords: oxygen isotopes # Notes: #-------------------- # Chronology_Information # Chronology: # # #-------------------- # Variables # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/skos/past-thesaurus.rdf # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Description: Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus terms, definitions, and relationships in SKOS format. # # Data variables follow that are preceded by '##' in columns one and two. # Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-var components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, data type, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) # ## age_month age,,,year,,corals and sclerosponges,,,N,floating series monthly resolution ## d18Ores delta 18O,Goniopora hilli,,per mil VPDB,,corals and sclerosponges,anomalized,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,residual from Breaks For Additive Season and Trend (BFAST; Verbesselt et al. 2010) ## d18Oresfilt delta 18O,Goniopora hilli,,per mil VPDB,,corals and sclerosponges,anomalized;filtered,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,residual from Breaks For Additive Season and Trend (BFAST; Verbesselt et 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