Dataset: Modern deep-sea coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) nitrogen isotopes
Deployment: DeepSeaCoralNitrogen_corals

Deep-sea coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) nitrogen isotope data
Principal Investigator: 
Maria Prokopenko (Pomona College, Pomona)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Daniel M. Sigman (Princeton University)
Contact: 
Xingchen Wang (California Institute of Technology, Caltech)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Description

This dataset contains d15N isotope data and nitrogen content from scleractinian coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) samples obtained from various specimen collections.  The original coral samples were collected at a variety of sites worldwide between 1961 and 2009.  Coral age from radiocarbon dating and Uranium-Thorium dating, sample depth, latitude, and longitude are also included.  

These data were published as supplemental table S1 in:

Wang, X. T., Prokopenko, M. G., Sigman, D. M., Adkins, J. F., Robinson, L. F., Ren, H., ... & Haug, G. H. (2014). Isotopic composition of carbonate-bound organic nitrogen in deep-sea scleractinian corals: A new window into past biogeochemical change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 400, 243-250. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.048

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