Galapagos Coral Radiocarbon Data 
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                NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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         World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Galapagos Coral Radiocarbon Data
LAST UPDATE: 12/2004 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo)

CONTRIBUTOR: Ellen Druffel, University of California, Irvine 
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2004-087

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Druffel, E.R.M.. 2004.
Galapagos Coral Radiocarbon Data.
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2004-087. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 


ORIGINAL REFERENCES: 
Druffel, E.R.M. 1981.
Radiocarbon in annual coral rings from the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
Geophysical Research Letters, vol.8, No.1, pgs. 59-62, January 1981.

Druffel, E.R.M. 1980.
Radiocarbon in Annual Coral Rings of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.  
Ph.D. dissertation, UCSD, 213pp.


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Eastern tropical Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD:  1967 to 1977 AD

  
DESCRIPTION:   
Radiocarbon data from annually banded corals in the Galapagos Islands,
eastern tropical Pacific.

Sample CD12, Duncan Island,  Galapagos (1°S, 90°W) Pavona clavus
Collected May 1977 by P. Glynn and G.  Wellington



DATA:

   LJ#        YEAR      d14C       Error
           (± .3yrs)    per mil    per mil
   5018      1967.5       1         ±5
   5019      1968.5       17        ±6
   5016      1969.5       26        ±8
   5017      1970.5       16        ±4
   5015      1971.5       28        ±3
   5014      1972.5       45        ±4
   5008      1973.5       13        ±5
   5009      1974.5       28        ±4
   5007      1975.5       38        ±4
   5005      1976.5       46        ±3
   5006      1977.2       49        ±5