Barbados Coral Extended Last Glacial Maximum Sea Level Record ----------------------------------------------------------------------- World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder and NOAA Paleoclimatology Program ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!! NAME OF DATA SET: Barbados Coral Extended Last Glacial Maximum Sea Level Record LAST UPDATE: 10/2008 (Original receipt by WDC Paleo) CONTRIBUTOR: W.R. Peltier, University of Toronto IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2008-101 WDC PALEO CONTRIBUTION SERIES CITATION: Peltier, W.R. and R.G. Fairbanks. 2008. Barbados Coral Extended Last Glacial Maximum Sea Level Record. IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 2008-101. NOAA/NCDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Peltier, W.R. and R.G. Fairbanks. 2006. Global glacial ice volume and Last Glacial Maximum duration from an extended Barbados sea level record. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 25, pp 3322-3337. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.04.010 ABSTRACT: Fundamental characteristics of the climate system during the most recent precessional cycle of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun consist of the final expansion of land ice to its maximum extent, the subsequent episode of deglaciation, and the variations of global sea level that accompanied these events. In order to address the important issue of the variation of continental ice volume and related changes in global sea level through the late glacial period, we employ an extended set of observations of the pre-glacial and postglacial history of sea-level rise at the island of Barbados, together with a refined model of continental deglaciation and an accurate methodology for the prediction of postglacial sea-level change. Although our results provide unambiguous evidence that the post LGM rise of eustatic sea-level was very close to the widely supported estimate of 120 m, the data also provide evidence that LGM must have occurred 26,000 years ago, approximately 5000 yr earlier than the usually assumed age. ADDITIONAL REFERENCE: Jansen, E., J. Overpeck, K.R. Briffa, J.-C. Duplessy, F. Joos, V. Masson-Delmotte, D. Olago, B. Otto-Bliesner, W.R. Peltier, S. Rahmstorf, R. Ramesh, D. Raynaud, D. Rind, O. Solomina, R. Villalba and D. Zhang, 2007: Palaeoclimate. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Barbados, tropical west Atlantic PERIOD OF RECORD: 31 KYrBP - present FUNDING SOURCES: Polar Climate Stability Network of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science (WRP), NSERC Grant A9627 (WRP), and US National Science Foundation Grants OCE99-11637 and ATM03-27722 (RGF). DESCRIPTION: Extended set of relative sea level (RSL) observations from Barbados corals, expressed in meters below present sea level. The data have also been plotted in figure 6.8 of Jensen et al. 2007, IPCC AR4 WG1, Chapter 6, Palaeoclimate. DATA: Sample Location Species Depth(m) Uplift Mean Th/U Mean 1 sigma corrected age U-Th depth(m) (yr BP) (yr) RGFB56 Barbados A. palmate -1.0 -1.3 726 10 RGF7-5-5 Barbados A. palmate -18.5 -21.4 9930 17 RGF7-9-6 Barbados A. palmate -21.6 -24.7 8936 22 RGF7-10-2 Barbados A. palmate -22.3 -25.4 8934 30 RGF7-12-2 Barbados A. palmate -25.4 -28.6 9155 18 RGF7-16-2 Barbados A. palmate -30.0 -33.3 9618 23 RGF7-16-6 Barbados A. palmate -30.2 -33.6 9922 21 RGF7-19-3 Barbados A. palmate -33.1 -36.5 9941 33 RGF7-23-4 Barbados A. palmate -37.8 -41.4 10571 39 RGF7-26-2 Barbados A. palmate -39.1 -42.8 10808 23 RGF7-27-4 Barbados A. palmate -40.7 -44.5 11078 37 RGF9-8-2 Barbados A. palmate -88.6 -93.5 14082 28 RGF9-9-7 Barbados A. palmate -89.5 -94.4 14295 29 RGF9-11-2 Barbados A. palmate -90.8 -95.6 14255 20 RGF9-12-5 Barbados A. palmate -92.5 -97.4 14408 20 RGF9-12-7 Barbados A. palmate -92.6 -97.5 14396 18 RGF9-13-3 Barbados A. palmate -93.9 -98.9 14539 23 RGF9-20-2 Barbados A. palmate -105.2 -111.4 18116 37 RGF9-21-6 Barbados A. palmate -105.8 -112.0 18174 33 RGF9-21-9 Barbados A. palmate -105.9 -112.2 18448 50 RGF9-21-10 Barbados A. palmate -105.9 -112.2 18218 44 RGF9-21-11 Barbados A. palmate -106.1 -112.2 18176 56 RGF9-22-4 Barbados A. palmate -106.9 -113.2 18549 26 RGF9-23-2 Barbados A. palmate -107.3 -113.7 18746 64 RGF9-23-5 Barbados A. palmate -107.5 -113.9 18783 80 RGF9-24-2 Barbados A. palmate -109.1 -115.5 18716 28 RGF9-24-4 Barbados A. palmate -109.3 -115.7 18806 33 RGF9-27-5 Barbados A. palmate -113.8 -120.3 19075 55 RGF12-5-2 Barbados A. palmate -53.0 -56.9 11392 22 RGF12-6-7 Barbados A. palmate -54.7 -58.6 11511 37 RGF12-9-3 Barbados A. palmate -57.4 -61.5 12002 25 RGF12-9-5 Barbados A. palmate -57.6 -61.8 12203 38 RGF12-9-6 Barbados A. palmate -57.7 -61.9 12170 15 RGF12-12-2 Barbados A. palmate -60.4 -64.8 12798 25 RGF12-14-4 Barbados A. palmate -62.3 -66.6 12844 39 RGF12-15-4 Barbados A. palmate -63.8 -68.2 12993 17 RGF12-16-5 Barbados A. palmate -65.4 -69.8 13088 56 RGF12-17-2CL Barbados A. palmate -65.8 -70.3 13179 16 RGF12-21-2 Barbados A. palmate -69.1 -73.7 13555 19 RGF12-21-6 Barbados A. palmate -69.4 -74.0 13574 26 RGF12-21-7 Barbados A. palmate -69.6 -74.2 13578 26 RGF12-21-10 Barbados A. palmate -69.9 -74.5 13632 16 RGF12-28-6 Barbados A. palmate -77.4 -87.5 29540 41 RGF12-28-7 Barbados A. palmate -77.6 -87.8 30147 57 RGF12-29-2 Barbados A. palmate -77.9 -88.2 30225 75 RGF12-30-2 Barbados A. palmate -78.5 -88.8 30298 110 RGF12-30-3 Barbados A. palmate -78.6 -88.9 30242 48 RGF13-8-9 Barbados A. palmate -106.0 -111.9 17580 69 RGF15-5-3 Barbados A. palmate -91.3 -96.3 14573 15 RGF15-9-5 Barbados A. palmate -101.6 -107.9 18408 26 RGF15-10-1 Barbados A. palmate -101.7 -108.3 19392 29 RGF15-12-2 Barbados A. palmate -103.2 -109.9 19518 33 RGF15-12-5 Barbados A. palmate -103.6 -110.3 19708 26 RGF16-12-6 Barbados A. palmate -54.3 -58.2 11512 17 RGF16-12-7 Barbados A. palmate -54.4 -58.3 11391 36 RGF9-1-2 Barbados M. annularis -78.1 -82.2 12179 33 RGF9-1-6 Barbados M. annularis -78.3 -82.4 12029 30 RGF9-1-7 Barbados M. annularis -78.4 -82.5 11774 41 RGF9-1-8 Barbados M. annularis -78.7 -82.9 12212 64 RGF9-2-3 Barbados M. annularis -79.6 -83.7 12016 28 RGF9-2-5 Barbados M. annularis -80.0 -84.1 12103 39 RGF9-2-7 Barbados M. annularis -80.2 -84.4 12309 36 RGF9-3-2 Barbados M. annularis -81.2 -85.4 12303 14 RGF9-3-4 Barbados M. annularis -81.5 -85.8 12680 75 RGF9-35-6 Barbados M. annularis -125.7 -133.2 22160 62 RGF9-37-2 Barbados M. annularis -126.8 -134.5 22536 46 RGF9-37-3 Barbados M. annularis -127.0 -134.7 22574 48 RGF9-38-1 Barbados M. annularis -128.6 -136.5 23044 37 RGF9-38-2 Barbados M. annularis -128.8 -136.7 23296 61 RGF9-38-3 Barbados M. annularis -128.9 -136.7 23039 38 RGF9-39-2 Barbados M. annularis -129.9 -138.1 23867 44 RGF9-39-3 Barbados M. annularis -130.1 -138.2 23858 69 RGF9-41-3 Barbados M. annularis -132.9 -141.6 25645 40 RGF9-41-6 Barbados M. annularis -133.0 -141.8 25743 61 RGF9-41-8 Barbados M. annularis -133.3 -142.0 25639 45 RGF9-41-9 Barbados M. annularis -133.4 -142.2 25741 53 RGF9-41-10 Barbados M. annularis -133.5 -142.3 25866 53 RGF9-41-11 Barbados M. annularis -133.2 -142.0 25622 63 RGF9-41-13 Barbados M. annularis -133.4 -142.3 26044 40 RGF13-1-11 Barbados M. annularis -95.5 -100.5 14563 65 RGF15-1-2 Barbados M. annularis -81.3 -85.4 11988 61 RGF15-2-4 Barbados M. annularis -83.3 -87.5 12533 25 RGF15-3-6 Barbados M. annularis -85.2 -89.6 12783 65 RGF15-13-4 Barbados M. annularis -104.8 -111.5 19770 31 RGF15-14-3 Barbados M. annularis -106.1 -112.7 19483 27 RGF15-14-4 Barbados M. annularis -106.2 -112.9 19638 25 RGF15-14-5 Barbados M. annularis -106.3 -113.0 19650 110 RGF15-15-8 Barbados M. annularis -108.0 -114.8 19913 34 RGF15-17-3 Barbados M. annularis -111.1 -118.1 20575 31 RGF15-19-3 Barbados M. annularis -112.3 -119.3 20632 31 RGF7-4-2 Barbados P. asteroides -17.8 -20.3 7376 17 RGF9-3-5 Barbados P. asteroides -81.7 -86.1 12937 33 RGF9-3-6 Barbados P. asteroides -81.8 -86.1 12873 24 RGF9-32-4 Barbados P. asteroides -119.8 -126.7 20339 79 RGF9-34-7 Barbados P. asteroides -124.1 -131.5 21714 41 RGF9-34-8 Barbados P. asteroides -124.4 -131.8 21802 41 RGF9-34-10 Barbados P. asteroides -124.6 -132.0 21858 41 RGF9-35-2 Barbados P. asteroides -125.3 -132.8 21966 39 RGF9-39-4 Barbados Diploria -130.2 -138.6 24883 55 RGF9-39-5A Barbados Diploria -130.5 -138.8 24579 41 RGF9-40-3 Barbados Diploria -132.0 -140.6 25265 225 RGF9-40-4 Barbados Diploria -132.1 -140.7 25045 30 RGF9-43-3 Barbados Diploria -139.8 -150.5 31366 56 RGF15-1-6 Barbados Diploria spp. -81.9 -86.2 12411 69 RGF15-13-6 Barbados Diploria sp. -105.1 -111.7 19434 30 RGF15-15-3 Barbados Diploria sp. -107.5 -114.2 19595 44 RGF15-15-5 Barbados Diploria sp. -107.7 -114.3 19627 34 RGF16-6-2 Barbados A. cervicornis -48.4 -52.0 10527 46