Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: T. Guilderson Originator: D. Schrag Originator: E. Goddard Originator: M. Kashgarian Originator: G. Wellington Originator: B. Linsley Publication_Date: 200010 Title: Rarotonga Radiocarbon (delta 14C) for 1950 to 1997 Series_Information: Series_name: World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series Issue_Identification: 2000-062 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Boulder Publisher: World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder Description: Abstract: Rarotonga coral radiocarbon (14C) timeseries. Coral radiocarbon (Delta-14C) on untreated, low-speed drilled samples. Precision is +/- 4 per mil as documented by an in-house homogenized coral standard, and presented as AGE CORRECTED DELTA-14C [see Stuiver Polach, 1977]. The sample cores were made on a Porites lutea coral located in open marine conditions off Rarotonga. Cores were split and cleaned with distilled water. After identifying the major vertical growth axis, the coral was sequentially sampled at 1 mm increments with a low-speed drill. Splits (~1 mg) were reacted in vacuo in a modified autocarbonate device at 90 deg C and the purified CO2 analyzed on a gas source stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Additional splits were analyzed by ICP-AES for Sr, and Ca. The delta-18O and [Sr/Ca] results were individually mapped to the Kaplan OI and IGOSS sea surface temperature time-series for the grid box containing Rarotonga. The resulting age model indicates an average linear extension rate on the order of 16mm/yr with an estimated age-model error of +/-1 month. For the interval 1959-1997, approximately every other sample was analyzed for 14C (~8samples/yr), and for the interval 1950-1959 every sample was analyzed. Splits (~10mg) were placed in individual reaction chambers, evacuated, heated, and then acidified with orthophosphoric acid at 90 deg C. The evolved CO2 was purified, trapped, and converted to graphite in the presence of cobalt catalyst in individual reactors [Vogel et al., 1987]. Graphite targets were measured at the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [Davis et al., 1990]. Radiocarbon results are reported as Delta-14C (") as defined by Stuiver and Polach [1977] and include the d13C correction obtained from the stable isotope results and are "age corrected". Analytical precision and accuracy of the radiocarbon measurements is +/- 4" (1s) based on repeated analyses of an in-house homogenized near-modern coral and accepted secondary and tertiary radiocarbon standards. In keeping with the definition of "high-precision radiocarbon" (less than 3 per mil, 1-sigma) data have been rounded to zero significant figures. Purpose: Paleoclimatic Research Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1950 Ending_Date: 1997 Currentness_Reference: Publication Date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None Planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -159.82 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -159.82 North_Bounding_Coordinate: -21.23 South_Bounding_Coordinate: -21.23 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Coral Records > Radiocarbon Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Coral Records > Sr/Ca Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Coral Records > Delta 18O Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Coral Records > Delta 14C Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Coral Records > Linear extension rate Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Numeric Data Sets > Paleoclimatology Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere Theme_Keyword: 004 Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Cook Islands > Rarotonga > Rarotonga (21S159W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > Southern Cook Islands > Rarotonga (21S159W0001) Temporal: Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Temporal Thesaurus Temporal_Keyword: Holocene, Modern Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA Data_Set_Credit: Guilderson, T.P., D.P. Schrag, E. Goddard, M. Kashgarian, G.M., Wellington, and B.K. Linsley, 2000, Southwest subtropical Pacific surface water radiocarbon in a high-resolution coral record. Radiocarbon, 42 (2), 249-256, 2000. Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: coral variable Entity_Type_Definition: coral variable Entity_Type_Definition_Source: coral variable Attribute: Attribute_Label: del14C Attribute_Definition: delta 14C (per mil) Attribute_Definition_Source: Druffel, E. M., 1981, Radiocarbon in annual coral rings from the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 8, p. 59-62. 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