Sr/Ca and linear extension data for a modern Orbicella faveolata coral from Marquesas Keys, Florida, USA

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Entity_and_Attribute_Information
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Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Jennifer A. Flannery
Originator: Julie N. Richey
Originator: Lauren T. Toth
Originator: Madelyn J. Mette
Publication_Date: 20231211
Title:

Sr/Ca and linear extension data for a modern Orbicella faveolata coral from Marquesas Keys, Florida, USA

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Jennifer A. Flannery
Originator: Julie N. Richey
Originator: Lauren T. Toth
Originator: Madelyn J. Mette
Publication_Date: 20231211
Title:

Sr/Ca and Linear Extension Data for a Modern Orbicella faveolata Coral From Marquesas Keys, Florida, USA

Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey data release
Issue_Identification: doi:10.5066/P9Q01QJJ

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL
Publisher:

U.S. Geological Survey - St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q01QJJ

Description:

Abstract:

This data release contains new subannual Strontium/Calcium (Sr/Ca) and annual linear extension records from a colony of the massive coral, Orbicella faveolata. The colony was collected live from the Marquesas Keys, Florida (FL) in August 1980 from core MK1. The coral Sr/Ca paleothermometer can provide a powerful proxy for centennial-scale sea-surface temperature (SST) variability in the Caribbean/Atlantic Ocean region.

Purpose:

Sr/Ca ratios act as a proxy for SST in the skeletons of aragonite producing organisms, such as massive corals. This is a new, 150-year proxy reconstruction (1830-1980 Common Era [C.E.]) of monthly-resolved Sr/Ca-based SST estimates from the coral species Orbicella faveolata collected from the Marquesas Keys, FL, USA. For more details on methods and the results of the study, refer to Flannery and others, 2024.

Supplemental_Information:

Corals were collected under USGS field activity number (FAN) 1980-300-FA. Additional survey and data details are available on the Costal and Marine Geoscience Data System (CMGDS) at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=1980-300-FA.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1733
Ending_Date: 2011

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.1194
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.1194
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.5719
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.5719

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:24c5a19b-9104-4ca5-8ece-03673f3273c0

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: biota

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: coral
Theme_Keyword: paleoclimatology
Theme_Keyword: Sr/Ca
Theme_Keyword: Strontium/Calcium

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: coelenterates
Theme_Keyword: sea surface temperature
Theme_Keyword: climate change
Theme_Keyword: sclerochronology

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Place_Keyword: Marquesas Keys
Place_Keyword: Florida Keys
Place_Keyword: Florida

Stratum:

Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: Global Change Master Directory
Stratum_Keyword: sea floor

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Temporal_Keyword: Modern

Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:

Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. The U.S. Geological Survey requests to be acknowledged as originator of these data in future products or derivative research.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Julie N. Richey
Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey - St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th St. South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8123
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jrichey@usgs.gov

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Environment as of Metadata Creation: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Version 22H2

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Toth, L.T., and Mette, M.J.
Publication_Date: 20240223
Title:

20th century warming in the western Florida Keys was dominated by increasing winter temperatures

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Issue_Identification: Volume 39, Issue 2

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004748

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Thirumalai, K., Poore, R.Z., and DeLong, K.L.

Publication_Date: 20170115
Title:

Multi-species coral Sr/Ca-based sea-surface temperature reconstruction using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from the Florida Straits

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Issue_Identification: Volume 466

Other_Citation_Details: Pages 100-109
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.10.022

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Toth, L.T., Kuffner, I.B., and Poore, R.Z.

Publication_Date: 20180706
Title:

Quantifying Uncertainty in Sr/Ca‐Based estimates of SST from the coral Orbicella faveolata

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Issue_Identification: Volume 33, Issue 9

Other_Citation_Details: Pages 958-973
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003389

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

DeLong, K.L., Flannery, J.A., Maupin, C.R., Poore, R.Z., and Quinn, T.M.

Publication_Date: 20110701
Title:

A coral Sr/Ca calibration and replication study of two massive corals from the Gulf of Mexico

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Issue_Identification: Volume 307, Issues 1-4

Other_Citation_Details: Pages 117-128
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.005

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

DeLong, K.L., Flannery, J.A., Poore, R.Z., Quinn, T.M., Maupin, C.R., Lin, K., and Shen, C.C.

Publication_Date: 20140415
Title:

A reconstruction of sea surface temperature variability in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico from 1734–2008 CE using cross-dated Sr/Ca records from the coral Siderastrea siderea

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Issue_Identification: Volume 29, Issue 5

Other_Citation_Details: Pages 403-422
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/doi:10.1002/2013PA002524

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report: No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted.

Logical_Consistency_Report: No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted.
Completeness_Report:

Dataset is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: No formal positional accuracy tests were conducted.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected the coral core used in this study in the southern area of the Marquesas Keys (24.5719° North, 82.1194° West) in August 1980 (O. faveolata colony, core MK1) using a rotary corer. Subsampling of the coral colony (core MK1) was completed using a tri-axial micromill with a 0.5 millimeter (mm) forward increment, 1.5 mm cut depth, and a 0.5 mm drill bit along a continuous thecal wall. Between 88 and 237 micrograms (μg) of subsampled skeletal powder was weighed out for each sample from each of the coral colonies and acidified using ultrapure 2% nitric acid (HNO3) to obtain sample solutions with a target Ca concentration of 20 parts per million (ppm). A PerkinElmer 7300 dual view inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) was used to make the Sr/Ca determinations. The resulting Sr/Ca annual cycles were used to compute annual linear extension rates by measuring the distance between each summer peak. The Marquesas Keys (core MK1) Sr/Ca data were incorporated into an existing composite record spanning the Dry Tortugas region (Flannery and others, 2017).

Process_Date: 2018

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980.csv, MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980.xlsx
Entity_Type_Definition:

These files contain attribute information for the subannual Sr/Ca and annual linear extension rate data collected from a modern Orbicella faveolata colony (core MK1) spanning 1830-1980. When viewing MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980.csv, please note that when no data is available, the cell was either left blank or a 'NaN' value was used. The data are published as a comma separated values file (.csv) and a Microsoft Excel file (.xlsx).

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date MK1 Sub Annual
Attribute_Definition:

Date in the format of YYYY.XXX for the subannual Sr/Ca data for coral core MK1 (Orbicella faveolata).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1830.125
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1980.874
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Decimal Year

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MK1 Sub Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol)
Attribute_Definition:

Sub Annual Sr/Ca millimole per mole (mmol/mol) values for coral core MK1 (Orbicella faveolata).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 8.876
Range_Domain_Maximum: 9.665
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mmol/mol

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date MK1 Mean Annual
Attribute_Definition:

Date in the format of YYYY for the mean annual Sr/Ca data for coral core MK1

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1830
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1980
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Year (C.E.)

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MK1 Mean Annual Sr/Ca (mmol/mol)
Attribute_Definition:

Mean Annual Sr/Ca millimole per mole (mmol/mol) values for coral core MK1 (Orbicella faveolata).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: NaN
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: No data available
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 9.146
Range_Domain_Maximum: 9.416
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: mmol/mol

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date MK1 Linear Extension
Attribute_Definition:

Date in the format of YYYY for the corresponding linear extension rate values.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1830
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1979
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Year (C.E.)

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MK1 Linear Extension (cm/yr)
Attribute_Definition:

Annual linear extension rates for coral core MK1 (Orbicella faveolata) in centimeters per year (cm/yr).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: NaN
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: No data available
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.55
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1.85
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: cm/yr

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date Composite
Attribute_Definition:

Date in the format of YYYY for the corresponding composite SST (°C) values.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1733
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2011
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Year (C.E.)

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Full Composite SST (°C)
Attribute_Definition:

Stacked Sr/Ca-SST (°C) data. Data was produced by independently calibrating the MK1 Sr/Ca record to the Orbicella faveolata species-specific calibration equation (Flannery and others, 2018) and stacking the MK1 record together with ten previously-published Sr/Ca-SST records (Flannery and others, 2017, 2018; DeLong and others, 2011, 2014).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 23.822
Range_Domain_Maximum: 27.124
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Degrees Celsius

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: O. faveolata Composite SST (°C)
Attribute_Definition:

Stacked Sr/Ca-SST (°C) data. Data was produced by independently calibrating the MK1 Sr/Ca record to the Orbicella faveolata species-specific calibration equation (Flannery and others, 2018) and stacking the MK1 record together with five previously-published Sr/Ca-SST records (Flannery and others, 2017, 2018).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: NaN
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: No data available
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 21.304
Range_Domain_Maximum: 27.343
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Degrees Celsius

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The entity and attribute information provided here describes the tabular data associated with the dataset. Please review the detailed descriptions that are provided (the individual attribute descriptions) for information on the values that appear as fields/table entries of the dataset.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

The entity and attribute information was generated by the individual and/or agency identified as the originator of the dataset. Please review the rest of the metadata record for additional details and information.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Julie N. Richey
Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey - St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th St. South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8123
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jrichey@usgs.gov

Resource_Description: MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980.csv, MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980.xlsx
Distribution_Liability:

This publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: comma-delimited text, Microsoft Excel format
Format_Version_Number: None

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-P9Q01QJJ/data/MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980.zip

Fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20240712
Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Julie N. Richey
Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Position: Research Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th St. South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8123
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jrichey@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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