Multi-site - Density, Extension, and Calcification Data

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CORALS AND SCLEROSPONGES

Multi-site - Density, Extension, and Calcification Data

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Lough, J.M., and D.J. Barnes. 1997. Several centuries of variation in skeletal extension, density and calcification in massive Porites colonies from the Great Barrier Reef: a proxy for seawater temperature and a background of variability against which to identify unnatural change. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 211:29-67.

Data Coverage	North: -9.58 * South: -23.55
	West: 142.17 * East: 153

Start Year: 1479 AD End Year: 1991 AD

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  west_pacific/great_barrier/abraham.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/agincourt.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/aims10coreavg.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/britomart.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/brook.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/burkitt.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/cid_harbour.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/conical_rocks.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/coombe.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/darnley.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/dunk.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/flinders.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/great_palm.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/havannah.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/hook.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/jeannie.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/kurrimine.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/lodestone.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/low.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/lupton.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/magnetic.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/masthead.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/north_molle.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/otter.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/pandora.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/pascoe.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/readme_greatbarrier.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/redwallis.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/rib.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/sanctuary.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/scawfell.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/snapper.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/south_molle.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/stanley.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/stonehaven.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/wheeler.txt
  west_pacific/great_barrier/yankee.txt

Summary:

Records of past climate and ocean environment derived from stable isotope, trace metal, and other measurements made on corals and sclerosponges. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations.
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Parameters:

ext; calcif; dens; readme

Complete XML Record:

noaa-coral-1863 (Last Revised: 2007-09-05 )

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