Geochemical data from IODP Expedition 310 Tahiti fossil corals

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Constraining climate models under extreme boundary conditions of the past on societally-relevant timescales is complicated by a common lack of high-resolution reconstructions of sea surface environmental variability for glacial periods. Fossil corals provide a unique but relatively rare climate proxy for the tropical ocean that can be sampled at high resolution. Here, we present subseasonally-resolved geochemical proxy data (Sr/Ca, δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C) from well-preserved fossil corals of the penultimate glacial (153 ka and 148 ka during Marine Isotope Stage 6b) and last glacial periods (30 ka during MIS 3a) drilled by Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 310 "Tahiti Sea Level" in the central tropical South Pacific. Samples from selected well-preserved skeletal portions with no evidence of diagenetic alteration were analyzed at 0.5 mm resolution for geochemistry. These datasets are the first monthly-to-bimonthly resolved coral proxy records of the penultimate glacial and the last glacial periods for the Pacific Ocean, and for the global ocean with respect to the penultimate glacial, which can be useful for paleoclimate reconstruction studies and model simulation studies.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.987216
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2996
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.987216
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Creator Asami, Ryuji ORCID logo; Felis, Thomas ORCID logo; Shinjo, Ryuichi; Murayama, Masafumi; Iryu, Yasufumi ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 408139156 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/408139156 Tropical Pacific temperature seasonality around Meltwater Pulse-1A from IODP Expedition 310 corals; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001691 Crossref Funder ID 1010005006890 https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-toplevel/index.html World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), MEXT; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001691 Crossref Funder ID 22H01291 KAKENHI; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001691 Crossref Funder ID 23K22562 KAKENHI; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001691 Crossref Funder ID 24K21560 KAKENHI; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001691 Crossref Funder ID 26707028 KAKENHI
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 4 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-149.403W, -17.489S, -149.403E, -17.489N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2005-10-18T21:50:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2005-10-21T20:15:00Z