Late Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum Planktonic Foraminiferal d18O Data: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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              World Data Center A - for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Late Holocene & LGM Planktonic Foraminiferal d18O Data
LAST UPDATE: 1/2000 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Katharina Billups and Daniel Schrag, Harvard University

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-001

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Billups, K. and D. Schrag, 2000, 
Late Holocene and LGM Planktonic Foraminiferal d18O Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2000-001. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Billups, K. and D. Schrag, 2000, 
Surface ocean density gradients during the Last Glacial Maximum,
Paleoceanography, v.15, No.1, pp.110-123, February 2000.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Global
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-25 KYrBP

LIST OF FILES: Readme.billups2000.txt (this file), 
billups2000.table1.xls (Microsoft Excel format)
billups2000.table1.txt (tab-delimited ASCII format) 

DESCRIPTION:
Late Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum Planktonic Foraminiferal d18O Data.
Table 1 from Billups and Schrag (2000), containing Late Holocene
and Last Glacial Maximum Planktonic Foraminiferal d18O Values, 
used to reconstruct Surface Ocean Density Gradients.