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Cariaco Basin 800 Year Mg/Ca Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction
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Black, D.E., M.A. Abahazi, R.C. Thunell, A. Kaplan, E.J. Tappa, and L.C. Peterson. 2007. An 8-century tropical Atlantic SST record from the Cariaco Basin: Baseline variability, twentieth-century warming, and Atlantic hurricane frequency. Paleoceanography, 22, PA4204.
Data Coverage North: 10.77 * South: 10.77
West: -64.77 * East: -64.77
Altitude: -450 m

Start Year: 728 14C yr BP * End Year: -40 14C yr BP

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  pl7-73bc-tab.txt
  black2007

Summary:

We present the first direct comparison and calibration of a downcore foraminiferal Mg/Ca record to historical instrumental sea surface temperature (SST). Mg/Ca measured on the planktic foraminifer Globigerina bulloides from a Cariaco Basin sediment core strongly correlate with spring (March¿May) instrumental SSTs between A.D. 1870 and 1990. A Mg/Ca SST
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Age in years BC/AD

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