Submerged Coral Drilling
September 25-27, 2000 – St. Petersburg, Florida
Convener: Terry Quinn
September 25-27, 2000 – St. Petersburg, Florida
Convener: Terry Quinn
Summary
Annually banded massive corals and their associated reefal deposits have some unique attributes that make them exceptional archives of environmental change in the tropics through the Late Quaternary. These include the ability to directly date corals by high-precision, U-series techniques, the proven ability of large corals to yield high-resolution (e.g., ~monthly) multidecadal-to-multicentury long records of past climate variability in the Late Quaternary, and the utility of corals and associated deposits as recorders of past sealevels. Participants in the International Submerged Coral Workshop identified four overarching scientific issues that can be ideally addressed by the drilling of submerged coral reefs:
Workshop Report (pdf)
Organizing Committee
Terry Quinn, University of South Florida
Sandy Tudhope, Edinburgh University