Sea of Japan Isotopic Data:  readme file
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			World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET:  Sea of Japan Isotopic Data

CONTRIBUTOR:  Sergei Gorbarenko, 
Far Eastern Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok.

LAST UPDATE:  3/98 (original receipt by WDC-A Paleo)

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1998-010

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Gorbarenko, S.A., Sea of Japan Isotopic Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #1998-010, 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder, CO.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Sea of Japan
ORIGINAL REFERENCE:  Gorbarenko, S.A., and Southon, J.R., 2000, 
Detailed Japan Sea paleoceanography during last 25Kyr: 
constraints from AMS dating and d18O of planktonic foraminifera.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 
v.156, issue 3-4, pp. 177-193, March 1, 2000.

PERIOD OF RECORD: 0 -25Kyr.
LIST OF FILES:  Gorbarenko2000.readme (this file), Table2.txt, Table3.txt,
Table4.txt, Table5.txt.

DESCRIPTION:  
Sea of Japan Isotopic Data from cores J-11, 1670, 1603 and J-3 (tables 2-5). 

Table 2. Core J-11. Oxygen and carbon isotopic data of N. pachyderma
sin and carbonate and organic carbon content in sediments of core.
Latitude- 40o07.1'N Longitude- 133o59.7'E. Depth-1150m. Contributor-
Gorbarenko S.A. Funding sourse: WESTPAC (RUSSIA); NSF, OCE-9402374(USA).

Table 3. Core 1670. Oxygen and carbon isotopic data of mixed
planktonic foraminifera, carbonate and organic carbon content
in sediments of core. Latitude-39o54.8'N, Longitude- 133o33.0'E.
Depth-1105m. Contributor-Gorbarenko S.A. Funding source: WESTPAC(RUSSIA).

Table 4. Core 1603. Oxygen isotopic data in mixed planktonic foram.,
ratio of N. pachyderma sin. to sum of N. pachyderma sin. and
N. pachyderma dex, coefficient Td- relative frequency of
the warm water diatom species according to Kanaya and Koizumi [1966],
CaCO3 and Corg., sum of darkconifer, % grains Castanea and Castanopsis
to grains sum of tree and shrub groups in sediments of core.
Longitude-35o55.3'N. Latitude-130o43.4'E. Depth-1360m. Contributor-
Gorbarenko S.A. Funding source: WESTPAC (RUSSIA) .
                                                           
Table 5. Core J-3. Carbonate and organic carbon content in weight %
in sediments of core. Longitude  -35o53.8'N. Latitude- 130o14.9'E.
Depth-1400m. Contributor-Gorbarenko S.A. Funding source WESTPAC (RUSSIA).

Variable units: for all cores d18O and d13C in o/oo to PDB standard,
CaCO3 and Corg. in weight % on dry sediment. For core 1603
ratio of N. pachyderma sin. to sum of N. pachyderma sin.
and N. pachyderma dex in %, Td (coefficient relative frequency of
the warm water diatom species according to Kanaya and Koizumi [1966]
in %. Sum darkconifer, similaras in % darkconifer to grains sum of
tree and shrub groups. % Grains of Castanea +Castanopsis to grains
sum of tree and shrub groups in %. Unfortunately only these data
are available now. Dr Verkhovskaya who had written the pollen part has
left the science and Vladivostok.

Data precision for d18O and d13C-0.1 o/oo for core J-11 for other
cores 0.15 o/oo; for CaCO3-0.1%; for Corg.-0.05%
Data format- txt.