Uranium-thorium dating of Atlantic cold-water corals from the last 32,000 years

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Uranium-thorium dating offers the possibility of absolute age determination of cold-water corals (CWCs). We present here the complementary dataset to "Radiocarbon dating of Atlantic cold-water corals over the last 32.000 years". It contains 230Th/U ages obtained on CWCs from various locations in the central and east Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Alboran Sea. It also includes an update of previously published data, necessitated by a recently discovered "ghost signal" (Kerber et al., 2023). U and Th were extracted according to the method of Wefing et al. (2017). The high precision isotopic measurements were performed on a multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS, Thermo Fisher Neptune Plus) at the Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany. For age calculations the half-lives of 234U and 230Th published in (Cheng et al., 2013) were used. The mass spectrometry setup and data treatment follows the methods recently updated in great detail by Kerber et al. (2023).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959510
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Creator Beisel, Elvira ORCID logo; Frank, Norbert ORCID logo; Wienberg, Claudia ORCID logo; Titschack, Jürgen ORCID logo; Hebbeln, Dierk ORCID logo; Robinson, Laura F ORCID logo; Lausecker, Marleen ORCID logo; Friedrich, Ronny; Therre, Steffen ORCID logo; Schröder-Ritzrau, Andrea ORCID logo; Butzin, Martin ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 247825108 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/247825108 Massenspektrometer (LA-MC-ICPMS); German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 274220935 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/274220935 Cold-water coral mound development underneath an eastern boundary upwelling system - the great wall of(f) Mauritania; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 312721254 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/312721254?language=en The marine 234U/238U isotopic ratio in the past; German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 325099762 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/325099762?language=en Atlantic Radiocarbon Calibration using framework forming cold water corals; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 818123 https://doi.org/10.3030/818123 Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Marine Ecosystems in Space and Time
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Size 2609 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-30.206W, -9.823S, 12.781E, 38.031N); Canyon S of Timiris mound chain; Banda mounds; northern Banda slide; Alboran Sea - E-Melilla - Brittlestar Ridge I; Alboran Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-11-12T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-27T15:21:00Z