Tahiti Deglacial Relative Sea Level Reconstruction
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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: Tahiti Deglacial Relative Sea Level Reconstruction
LAST UPDATE: 4/2003 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo)

CONTRIBUTOR: Edouard Bard, CEREGE
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2003-028

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Bard, E., 2003,
Tahiti Deglacial Relative Sea Level Reconstruction, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2003-028. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Bard, E., B. Hamelin, M. Arnold, L. Montaggioni, 
G. Cabioch, G. Faure, and F. Rougerie.  1996. 
Sea level record from Tahiti corals and the timing of deglacial 
meltwater discharge. 
Nature 382, 241-244.


ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
Montaggioni, L., G. Cabioch, G. Camoin, E. Bard, A. Ribaud-Laurenti, 
G. Faure, P. Déjardin, and J. Récy. 1997. 
Continuous record of reef growth over the past 14 ky on 
the mid-Pacific island of Tahiti. 
Geology 25, 555-558, (1997).

Bard, E., M. Arnold, B. Hamelin, N. Tisnerat-Laborde, and G. Cabioch. 1998.
Radiocarbon calibration by means of mass spectrometric 230Th/234U and 14C 
ages of corals. An updated data base including samples from Barbados, 
Mururoa and Tahiti. 
Radiocarbon 40, 1085-1092, (1998).

Montaggioni, L. and E. Bard.  1998. 
Continuous record of reef growth over the past 14 ky on the mid-Pacific 
island of Tahiti. 
Comment and Reply. Geology 26, 479-480.


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Pacific Ocean/Global.
PERIOD OF RECORD: 13700 - 3000 YrBP 

DESCRIPTION: 
Deglacial sea-level record at Tahiti (French Polynesia)
Site location (Papeete Harbor): 17°32'S 149°34'W

Ages are weighted mean calendar ages of corals based on 
U-Th ages measured by TIMS and calibrated C14 ages when 
the sample was only dated by AMS-C14.

This relative sea-level record is corrected for the subsidence 
at Tahiti (0.25 m/kyr)

Geochronological data, together with some interpretations, 
can be found in the following papers:
Bard et al. (1996), Montaggioni et al. (1997), Montaggioni & Bard (1998),
Bard et al. (1998).


DATA:


Calendar Age (yr BP) RSL Tahiti (m below present)

        3023                     0
        5839                     -1
        6616                     -6
        6886                     -7
        7228                     -8
        7274                    -11
        7625                    -14
        7710                    -16
        8520                    -24
        8663                    -25
        9255                    -33
        9565                    -35
        9830                    -38
        9825                    -38
        9920                    -40
        10205                   -45
        10250                   -45
        10120                   -47
        10575                   -47
        10850                   -53
        11005                   -53
        11280                   -56
        11495                   -62
        11930                   -63
        12875                   -69
        12800                   -69
        12695                   -70
        12710                   -71
        12865                   -72
        12905                   -73
        13065                   -74
        13465                   -77
        13750                   -80