Southern Ocean Biomarker Flux Data Set: Readme file
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Southern Ocean Biomarker Flux Data Set

LAST UPDATE: 4/2000 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Minoru Ikehara, Hokkaido University,
Institute of Low Temperature Science.

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-024

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Ikehara, M., et al, 2000, 
Southern Ocean Biomarker Flux Data Set, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2000-024. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Ikehara, M., Kawamura, K., Ohkouchi, N., 
Murayama, M., Nakamura, T., and Taira, A., 2000,
Variations of terrestrial input and marine productivity 
in the Southern Ocean (48S) during the last two deglaciations,
Paleoceanography, v.15, No.2, pp.170-180, April 2000.

FUNDING SOURCE: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from the 
Ministry of Education, Japan

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: South Tasman Rise, Southern Ocean
PERIOD OF RECORD:  Last two deglaciations, 0-35 kyrBP., 110-145 kyrBP.

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Ikehara2000.txt (this file), CNS.T-I.xls, CNS.T-II.xls, 
Biomarker.MAR.T-I.xls, Biomarker.MAR.T-II.xls (Microsoft Excel Format),
CNS.T-I.txt, CNS.T-II.txt, Biomarker.MAR.T-I.txt, Biomarker.MAR.T-II.txt
(tab-delimited ASCII format).

DESCRIPTION:
Southern Ocean Biomarker Flux Data
Cores TSP-2MC and TPP-2PC, Tasman Plateau, 
48 08.2'S, 146 52.5'E, 2321 m.

Marine and terrestrial biomarker data used for paleoenvironmental reconstruction 
of atmospheric transport and glacial-interglacial marine productivity changes.