Southern Great Barrier Reef 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: Southern Great Barrier Reef Coral Radiocarbon Data
LAST UPDATE: 12/2004 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo)

CONTRIBUTORS: Ellen Druffel and Sheila Griffin, 
University of California, Irvine 
 
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2004-093

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Druffel, E.R.M.. 2004.
Southern Great Barrier Reef Coral Radiocarbon Data.
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2004-093. 
NOAA/NCDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 


ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Druffel, E.R.M. and S. Griffin.  1995.
Regional variability of surface ocean radiocarbon from 
southern great barrier reef corals. Radiocarbon 37:517-524.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Tropical Pacific Ocean
PERIOD OF RECORD:  1956-1983 AD

  
DESCRIPTION:  
Southern Great Barrier Reef Coral Radiocarbon Data
Lady Musgrave Island  (24°S, 153°E)
Porites austraiensis collected Nov 1983 by Druffel



DATA:

   Year      d14C       ±        WH#
  1956.3    -51.8      2.1       751
  1958.3    -52.9      2.9       724
  1960.3    -25.4      2.7       518
  1961.3    -24.4      2.6       531
  1963.3     -6.7      2.7       529
  1965.3     37.4      2.5       527
  1967.3     70.2      2.5       523
  1969.3    103.7      2.9       519
  1971.3    111.2      2.6       526
  1973.3    113.5      3.2       530
  1974.3    123.2      2.5       524
  1978.3    144.7      2.9       521
  1980.3    137.3      2.8       528
  1981.3    139.9      2.4       520
  1982.3    125.3      3.1       522
  1983.3    121.6      3.3       525