Madrepora oculata and Lophelia pertusa mass and 210Pb-226Ra chronology, Røst Reef, Norway, 2011

• Main Authors: Sabatier, Pierre, Reyss, Jean-Louis, Hall-Spencer, Jason M, Colin, Christophe, Frank, Norbert, Tisnérat-Laborde, Nadine, Bordier, Louise, Douville, Eric
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Age; lower confidence level; upper confidence level; Carbon-14; modern; error; Comment; Coral polyp; Depth; bottom/max; top/min; EPOCA; European Project on Ocean Acidification; Identification; Latitude; northbound; southbound; Lead-210; standard deviation; Lead-210 activity per mass; Longitude; eastbound; westbound; Lophelia pertusa; mass; Madrepora oculata; Potassium-40; Radium-226; Radium-226 activity per mass; Sample ID; see reference(s); Site; Species; Spectrophotometry; Thorium-228; Uranium-238; Uranium-238 activity per mass; Bomb Peak; Norway; Røst; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.778153; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.778153

Here we show the use of the 210Pb-226Ra excess method to determine the growth rate of corals from one of the world's largest known cold-water coral reef, the Røst Reef off Norway. Two large branching framework-forming cold-water coral specimens, one Lophelia pertusa and one Madrepora oculata we...