# El Capitan Cave, SE Alaska 75,000 Year Speleothem Stable Isotope Data #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 3.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite Publication, and Online_Resource and date accessed when using these data. # If there is no publication information, please cite Investigators, Title, and Online_Resource and date accessed. # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/26770 # Description: NOAA Landing Page # Online_Resource: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/northamerica/usa/alaska/el-capitan2019iso.txt # Description: NOAA location of the template # # Original_Source_URL: # Description: # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # Archive: Speleothems # # Dataset DOI: # # Parameter_Keywords: carbon isotopes, oxygen isotopes #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2019-05-27 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2023-01-07 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: El Capitan Cave, SE Alaska 75,000 Year Speleothem Stable Isotope Data #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Wilcox, P.S.; Dorale, J.A.; Baichtal, J.F.; Spotl, C.; Fowell, S.J.; Edwards, R.L.; Kovarik, J.L. #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: Speleothem stable isotope (d18O, d13C) data from El Capitan Cave, southeast Alaska, for the past 75,000 years. # Provided Keywords: paleoclimate, speleothem, last glacial, Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Paul S. Wilcox, Jeffrey A. Dorale, James F. Baichtal, Christoph Spotl, Sarah J. Fowell, R. Lawrence Edwards, Johanna L. Kovarik # Published_Date_or_Year: 2019-05-27 # Published_Title: Millennial-scale glacial climate variability in Southeastern Alaska follows Dansgaard-Oeschger cyclicity # Journal_Name: Scientific Reports # Volume: 9 # Edition: 7880 # Issue: # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44231-1 # Online_Resource: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44231-1 # Full_Citation: # Abstract: A stalagmite from Prince of Wales Island grew episodically between ~75,000 and ~11,100 yr BP; interrupted by seven hiatuses. Hiatuses most likely correspond to permafrost development and a temperature drop of up to 5C from modern conditions. Intervals of calcite deposition place tight constraints on the timing of mild climatic episodes in Alaska during the last glacial period, when permafrost was absent, allowing water infiltration into the karst system. These periods of calcite deposition are synchronous, within dating uncertainties, with Greenland Interstadials 1, 10, 11, 12c, 14b-14e, 16.1a, 17.2, and 20c. #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: University of Alaska Global Change Grant # Grant: Global Change Grant, Geist Fund #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Alaska Space Grant # Grant: #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Alaska Geological Society # Grant: #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: University of Innsbruck # Grant: #------------------ # Site_Information # Site_Name: El Capitan Cave # Location: North America>United States Of America>Alaska # Country: United States Of America # Northernmost_Latitude: 56.162 # Southernmost_Latitude: 56.162 # Easternmost_Longitude: -133.319 # Westernmost_Longitude: -133.319 # Elevation: 80 m #------------------ # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: EC-16-5-Fiso # Earliest_Year: 75125 # Most_Recent_Year: 11100 # Time_Unit: cal. year BP # Core_Length: 0.1405 # Notes: #------------------ # Chronology_Information # Chronology: # #---------------- # Variables # # Data variables follow are preceded by ## in columns one and two. # Data line variables format: one per line, shortname-tab-variable components (what, material, error, units, seasonality, data type,detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data, free text) # ## depth_mm depth, , , millimeter, , , , ,N, ## age_calBP age, , , calendar year before present, , , , ,N, year before present (1950 AD) U-Th dating ## d18O delta 18O, calcite, one standard error, per mil VPDB, ,speleothems,,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N, ## d13C delta 13C, calcite, one standard error, per mil VPDB, ,speleothems,,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N, # #---------------- # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header # Missing Values: # depth_mm age_calBP d18O d13C 0 11280 -7.58 -2.28 0.3 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