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    "tag": 15598,
    "title": "Uranium-Thorium Ages for Late Holocene Corals from the Southeast Florida Nearshore Ridge Complex",
    "pubdate": "20230714",
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    "issue": null,
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    "descript": "This data release (Modys and others, 2023a) 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). 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.",
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        {
            "name": "Modys, Alexander B.",
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        {
            "name": "Toth, Lauren T.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Mortlock, Richard A.",
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        {
            "name": "Oleinik, Anton E.",
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            "name": "coelenterates",
            "scope": "Freshwater and marine invertebrates, such as corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones, belonging to the phylum Coelenterata and living as sedentary polyps or free swimming medusae."
        },
        {
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        },
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        {
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            "name": "reef ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biological communities formed by the skeletons of calcareous seawater organisms, usually corals."
        },
        {
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            "code": "1203",
            "name": "uranium-thorium analysis",
            "scope": "Radiometric dating technique used to determine the age of earth materials based on determining the ratio of uranium-238 to the decay product thorium-230. The ratio is compared to the known half-life of the uranium isotope."
        },
        {
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            "name": "x-ray diffraction",
            "scope": "Study of crystals which uses short wave electromagnetic radiations (x-rays). The xrays, scattered by the crystal atoms, show a characteristic interference pattern that is dependent upon the structure of the crystal."
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        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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