Early LIA coral from Arno Atoll (Marshall Islands) Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, δ18O, δ13C, and skeletal density raw data

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This dataset includes geochemical and densitometric data from an early Little Ice Age (LIA; 1273–1332±4 CE) Porites microatoll slab collected in November 2017 from Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands. 230Th-U-dating was performed at GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany. Powder samples were extracted along the growth axes of the coral at 1 mm resolution (9.5 samples per annual band). Trace elements were measured using an Agilent 720 (axial) inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany. Mean Sr/Ca of JCp-1 standards measured along with this coral was 8.914±0.012 mmol mol-1 (n = 11; 1 sd). Stable isotopes were measured using a Finnigan MAT 252 mass spectrometer equipped with an automated Kiel III carbonate preparation device at the Stable Isotope Laboratory of MARUM, Bremen, Germany. Skeletal density was measured using a γ-densitometer at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The data are provided in their raw form (i.e., without linear interpolation to an evenly spaced time domain) and are referenced by sample number and distance (mm) along the respective sampling axis.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.984431
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.984431
Provenance
Creator Knebel, Oliver ORCID logo; Felis, Thomas ORCID logo; Kölling, Martin ORCID logo; Kench, Paul; Eisenhauer, Anton ORCID logo; Diers, Diana; Dolman, Andrew M (ORCID: 0000-0002-6481-966X); Ryan, Emma; Gischler, Eberhard
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 441832482 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/441832482?language=en SPP 2299: Tropical Climate Variability and Coral Reefs. A Past to Future Perspective on Current Rates of Change at Ultra-High Resolution; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 468501802 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/468501802 Common Era ENSO variability in the West Central Pacific inferred from isotopic and trace element analysis of Porites microatolls; Royal Society of New Zealand https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001509 Crossref Funder ID UOA1513
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 8119 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (171.654 LON, 7.258 LAT); Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands