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Anderson, David M; Prell, Warren L; Barratt, N J (1989): Estimates of sea surface temperatures in the Coral Sea [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.733897, Supplement to: Anderson, DM et al. (1989): Estimates of sea surface temperature in the Coral Sea at the last glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography, 4(6), 615-627, https://doi.org/10.1029/PA004i006p00615

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Abstract:
The CLIMAP [1981] reconstruction of the Coral Sea found relatively little cooling (2°C) in the low latitudes (10°S) but a warming off Australia at about 25°S. The small low-latitude changes are of interest because terrestrial pollen and snowline data from the New Guinea highlands imply that surface temperatures may have been 6° to 9°C colder at the last glacial maximum (LGM). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate these conclusions on the basis of additional core sites, new oxygen isotope stratigraphy, and new sea surface temperature (SST) estimates using the modern analog technique (MAT). In the northern Coral Sea, planktonic foraminifer assemblages consist of tropical-subtropical species that show little change over the past 20 kyr. Quantitative estimates of SST using the modern analog technique (MAT) confirm the CLIMAP [1981] conclusion that little or no temperature change occurred in this tropical region at the LGM, thus reinforcing the conflict with terrestrial evidence. In the southern region (25°S), two cores indicate that foraminifer faunas became more subtropical at the LGM. The MAT estimates for the LGM are 3° to 4°C colder than modern, producing a steeper thermal gradient in the southern Coral Sea. These data remove the warm SST anomaly along the eastern coast of Australia and indicate that during the LGM, cool high- latitude waters were displaced northward along the coast of Australia into the southern Coral Sea.
Project(s):
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (LDEO)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -18.785455 * Median Longitude: 154.883182 * South-bound Latitude: -33.230000 * West-bound Longitude: 146.200000 * North-bound Latitude: -12.870000 * East-bound Longitude: 172.600000
Date/Time Start: 1965-04-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1968-05-06T00:00:00
Event(s):
RC09-124 * Latitude: -28.750000 * Longitude: 172.600000 * Date/Time: 1965-04-09T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2540.0 m * Recovery: 5.14 m * Campaign: RC09 * Basis: Robert Conrad * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
RC09-126 * Latitude: -33.230000 * Longitude: 168.730000 * Date/Time: 1965-04-11T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2060.0 m * Recovery: 8.44 m * Campaign: RC09 * Basis: Robert Conrad * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
RC10-131 * Latitude: -14.530000 * Longitude: 157.970000 * Date/Time: 1966-04-20T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2933.0 m * Recovery: 9.37 m * Campaign: RC10 * Basis: Robert Conrad * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface temperature calculated from sediment core RC09-124. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.357330
  2. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface temperature calculated from sediment core RC09-126. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.357331
  3. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): Calcium carbonate content of sediment core RC10-131. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250468
  4. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core RC10-131. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.263950
  5. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface summer and winter temperature calculated from sediment core RC10-131. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250472
  6. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface temperature calculated from sediment core RC12-107. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.357332
  7. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core RC12-109. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.263951
  8. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface summer and winter temperature calculated from sediment core RC12-109. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250473
  9. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core RC12-113. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.263952
  10. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface summer and winter temperature calculated from sediment core RC12-113. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250474
  11. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core V24-157. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.263953
  12. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface summer and winter temperature calculated from sediment core V24-157. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250475
  13. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): Calcium carbonate content of sediment core V24-161. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250469
  14. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core V24-161. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.263954
  15. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface summer and winter temperature calculated from sediment core V24-161. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250476
  16. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core V24-166. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.52384
  17. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): Calcium carbonate content of sediment core V24-170. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250470
  18. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core V24-170. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.263956
  19. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface summer and winter temperature calculated from sediment core V24-170. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250477
  20. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): Calcium carbonate content of sediment core V24-184. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250471
  21. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 2) Stable isotope analysis on planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer from sediment core V24-184. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.263957
  22. Anderson, DM; Prell, WL; Barratt, NJ (1989): (Table 3) Sea surface summer and winter temperature calculated from sediment core V24-184. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.250478