In accordance with SO #3423 - The Gulf of America and SO #3424 - Mount McKinley and Landmarks Honoring the Alaskan People, new USGS data releases specific to those named places will utilize the new name Gulf of America and the restored name Mount McKinley. Per USGS practice, historical data will retain the name of the geographic features as they were known at the time the data were originally released.
Data Release
Mangrove Peat Radiocarbon Ages From Snipe and Swan Key, FL
By Nicole S. Khan,1,2 Lauren T. Toth,3 Ryan P. Moyer,4 Jaimie E. Shaw,1 Paulina Capar,1 Andrew C. Kemp,5 Simon E. Engelhart,6 and Benjamin P. Horton7
1 Formerly U.S. Geological Survey
2 Department of Earth Sciences and the Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
3 U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
4 Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
5 Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
6 Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham, UK
7 Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Summary
In 2016, researchers collected cores of mangrove peat from two islands in the Florida Keys: Snipe Key (24.679°N, 81.653°W) and Swan Key (25.349°N, 80.251°W) (Fig. 1). This data release contains the radiocarbon ages and associated data for peat samples analyzed throughout the two cores. These data were used by Khan and others to reconstruct the millennial-scale sea level variability of the two locations.
Khan, N.S., Ashe, E., Moyer, R.P., Kemp, A.C., Engelhart, S.E., Brain, M.J., Toth, L.T., Chappel, A., Christie, M., Kopp, R.E., Horton, B.P., 2022, Relative sea-level change in South Florida during the past ~5,000 years: Global and Planetary Change, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103902.
Data
| File Name and Description | Metadata (XML format) | Metadata (text format) | Download File |
|---|---|---|---|
| South_Florida_mangrove_peat_radiocarbon_data.zip Radiocarbon ages from mangrove peat cores collected at two sites in south Florida (.csv, .xlsx) |
South_Florida_mangrove_peat_ radiocarbon_metadata.xml |
South_Florida_mangrove_peat_ radiocarbon_metadata.txt |
South_Florida_mangrove_peat_ radiocarbon_data.zip (30 KB) |
Figure 1. Locations where cores of mangrove peat were collected. Samples from those cores were radiocarbon dated for this study.
Suggested Citation
Khan, N.S., Toth, L.T., Moyer, R.P., Shaw, J.E., Capar, P., Kemp, A.C., Engelhart, S.E., and Horton, B.P., 2022, Mangrove peat radiocarbon ages from Snipe and Swan Key, FL: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OOL3L4.