Stable isotope and trace element data for a Siderastrea siderea coral core CIM_C_2-2-1/CIM_C_2-2-2 from the Gulf of Mexico ...

• Main Authors: Harbott, Marie, Wu, Henry C, Kuhnert, Henning, Jimenez, Carlos, González-Díaz, Patricia, Rixen, Tim
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: coral climatology; oxygen isotope; trace elements ratio; δ18Oseawater; AGE; Age; Siderastrea siderea, δ18O; Siderastrea siderea, Strontium/Calcium ratio; Siderastrea siderea, Lithium/Magnesium ratio; Siderastrea siderea, Lithium/Calcium ratio; Siderastrea siderea, Magnesium/Calcium ratio; Siderastrea siderea, Uranium/Calcium ratio; Siderastrea siderea, Strontium-Uranium; δ18O, seawater, reconstructed; Siderastrea siderea, pseudo-coral δ18O; δ18O, seawater, reconstructed, residual; Siderastrea siderea, Strontium/Calcium ratio anomaly; δ18O, seawater, reconstructed anomaly; Diver-held corer; Calculated; Mass spectrometer, Finnigan, MAT 251; Mass spectrometer, Finnigan, MAT 253; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer ICPMS, Analytik Jena, Plasma Quant MS Elite; Make Our Planet Great Again-Ocean acidification crisis and global warming observations from tropical corals MOPGA-OASIS; Ocean acidification; ren
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.963278; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.963278

Massive corals act as a climate archive for the tropical oceans. They can provide valuable information in regions that have no or limited observations such as the southern Gulf of Mexico (GOM), where there is almost no information reaching back to preindustrial times on sea surface temperature (SST) or sea surface salinity (SSS) available. For the reconstruction of SST and SSS in the southern GOM the massive coral Siderastrea siderea was cored in 2005 providing a time window into the past reaching from 1845 to 2005 CE. The coral core was cut and X-rayed and bimothly samples were drilled with a Proxxon drill and 0.4 mm diamant coated drill bit. Oxygen isotopes were measured at the MARUM facilities in Bremen with a Finnigan MAT 251 and Finningan Mat 253plus isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Trace element analysis was done at the ZMT facilities in Bremen on a Plasma Quant MS Elite Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer. The Dataset also includes reconstructed δ18OSW after data Ren et al. (2002) as well ...