Lead in Corals Data
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                NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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         World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Lead in Corals Data
LAST UPDATE: 11/2004 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo)

CONTRIBUTOR: Glen Shen, University of Washington
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2004-096

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Shen, G.T. and E.A. Boyle. 2004.
Lead in Corals Data.
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2004-096. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 


ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Shen, G.T. and E.A. Boyle. 1987. 
Lead in corals: reconstruction of historical industrial fluxes 
to the surface ocean.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 82: 289-304. 


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
PERIOD OF RECORD: 1698-1983  AD

  
DESCRIPTION:
Lead concentration data from annually-banded scleractinian corals,
illustrating anthropogenic Pb increases in the surface ocean.

Sites:
North Atlantic Ocean:
Bermuda, North Rock              32 deg. 29'N,  64 deg. 48'W   10 m. depth   Diploria strigosa  
Bermuda, Southern Preserve       32 deg. 19'N,  64 deg. 41'W    9 m. depth   Diploria strigosa  
Florida, Hens & Chickens Reef    24 deg. 57'N,  80 deg. 33'W    4 m. depth   Montastrea annularis

Pacific Ocean:
Galapagos, San Cristobal Island   0 deg. 45'S,  89 deg. 36'W   15 m. depth   Pavona clavus
Tutuila, Aunuu                   14 deg. 20'S, 170 deg. 40'W    5 m. depth   Hydnophora microconos
Fiji, Suva                       18 deg. 07'S, 178 deg. 27'E    5 m. depth   Platgyra rustica

Indian Ocean:
Mauritius                        20 deg.  0'S,  57 deg. 30'E   ?? m. depth   Platgyra rustica




DATA:
Galapagos, San Cristobal Island,  P. clavus Pb/Ca

Column 1:  Year
Column 2: [Pb]/[Ca] x 10e-9
Column 3:  n, number of samples
Column 4:  standard deviation among multiple measurements


   Year    Pb/Ca   n    std.dev
   1963     10.1   3     1.1
   1964      9.4   3     0.5
   1965      9.9   2     1.5
   1966     10.4   3     0.4
   1967     11.7   3     0.9
   1968     11.1   3     1.4
   1969     19.3   6     4.4
   1970     17.0   3     2.8
   1971      9.5   2     0.2
   1972      8.5   3     0.3
   1973      9.4   3     0.6
   1974      9.9   3     0.9
   1975     10.0   3     0.7
   1976     10.9   3     0.5
   1977     10.2   3     0.7
   1978     10.5   6     1.0
   1979     12.1   3     0.8
   1980     10.8   3     0.6
   1981     11.9   3     1.1
   1982     14.7   3     0.5