Uranium-Thorium Ages for Late Holocene Corals from the Southeast Florida Nearshore Ridge Complex

This data release compiles Uranium-Thorium (U-Th) dating data for late Holocene coral samples collected from the Nearshore Ridge Complex (NRC) off Pompano Beach, Southeast Florida (SEFL; Figure 1). The samples were collected under Scientific Activity Licenses (SAL) from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (SAL-18-1659A-SRP) and with permission from Broward County Environmental Protection and Growth Management. These data were collected for a series of studies (Modys and others, 2022; 2023) aimed at evaluating the timing and palaeoecological implications of late Holocene reef development in southeast Florida.

Modys, A.B., Oleinik, A.E., Mortlock, R.A., Toth, L.T., and Precht, W.F., 2022, Climate-modulated range expansion of reef-building coral communities off southeast Florida during the late Holocene: Frontiers in Marine Science, v. 9, art. 995256, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.995256.

Modys, A.B., Toth, L.T., Mortlock, R.A., Oleinik, A.E., and Precht, W.F., 2023, Discovery of a rare pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) death assemblage off southeast Florida reveals multi-century persistence during the late Holocene: Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02387-3.