Dataset: Southern Ocean deep-sea fossil coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) nitrogen isotopes from R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer and R/V Thompson cruises between 2008 and 2011 (DeepSeaCoralNitrogen project)

This dataset contains d15N isotope data from fossil scleractinian coral (Desmophyllum dianthus) samples.  Coral age from radiocarbon dating and Uranium-Thorium dating, sample depth, latitude, and longitude are also included. Deep-sea corals used in this study were collected from (1) sea-mounts south of Tasmania during cruise TN-228 in 2008–2009 on the R/V Thompson; and (2) the Drake Passage from May to June 2011 during cruise NBP1103 on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer.

These data were published in:

Wang, X. T., Sigman, D. M., Prokopenko, M. G., Adkins, J. F., Robinson, L. F., Hines, S. K., ... & Haug, G. H. (2017). Deep-sea coral evidence for lower Southern Ocean surface nitrate concentrations during the last ice age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201615718. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615718114

Related dataset also from this publication:

d15N and age data from this dataset were used in the dataset:
Average coral nitrogen isotope records generated using Monte Carlo and Kalman Filters