Scotian Margin: Readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


CONTRIBUTORS: Lloyd D. Keigwin and Glenn A. Jones, WHOI
POC: for further information contact <Lkeigwin@ whoi.edu>
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 95-031
NAME OF DATA SET: Scotian Margin
LAST UPDATE: 12/95 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Continental Margin off Nova Scotia, 
from Cabot Strait to Laurentian Fan
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-20kyrBP
LIST OF FILES: Readme, Core_locations.txt, Radiocarbon_results.txt,
HU72-021-3.txt, HU72-021-7.txt, HU72021-3_IRD.txt, 
HU72021-7_grainsize.txt, HU73-011-1.txt,  HU73-031-7.txt,
HU73011-1_IRD.txt, V17-178.txt, V17-179.txt.


DESCRIPTION:
Microsoft Excel text files of oxygen isotopes (d18-O) to PDB,
faunal percentages, ice rafting counts, sand fraction percentages, 
site locations, accelerator 14C results.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
Keigwin, L. D. and G. A. Jones, 1995.  The marine record of deglaciation
from the continental margin off Nova Scotia.  
Paleoceanography v. 10, p. 973-985.

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Keigwin, L., 1995, Scotian Margin Data.  IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for
Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 95-031.  NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program,
Boulder CO, USA.