Pacific Bomb Radiocarbon Coral Data
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Pacific Bomb Radiocarbon Coral Data
LAST UPDATE: December 2004, addition of data from Tahiti
CONTRIBUTOR: Ellen Druffel

IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #:   1995-011

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Druffel, E., 1995, Pacific Bomb Radiocarbon Coral Data.  
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1995-011.  NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program,
Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: 
Druffel, E.R.M., 1987, Bomb radiocarbon in the Pacific: 
Annual and seasonal timescale variations, 
Journal of Marine Research, 45, 667-698.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Tropical Pacific

DESCRIPTION:
Pacific Bomb Radiocarbon Coral Data.

Core CFFS, French Frigate Shoals (23° 43'N, 166°06'W)
Porites
Collected November 1978 by R. Grigg




DATA:

   LJ#        YEAR       d14C       ERROR
             (±0.3)      per mil
   4941      1958.4       -23       3-4 per mil for the whole
   4940      1962.4        14       data set
   4948      1963.4        68
   4942      1964.4        84
   4947      1965.4       118
   4943      1966.4       144
   4945      1967.4       159
   4946      1968.4       173
   4944      1969.4       164
   4933      1970.4       177
   4939      1970.4       189
   4937      1972.4       182
   4934      1973.4       188
   4938      1974.4       177
   4931      1975.4       179
   4935      1975.4       168
   4932      1977.4       164
   4936      1978.4       165