South China Sea Sedimentary Nitrogen Isotope Data: Readme file

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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: South China Sea Sedimentary Nitrogen Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 11/1999 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Markus Kienast, University of British Columbia

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1999-060

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Kienast, M., 1999, 
South China Sea Sedimentary Nitrogen Isotope Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #1999-060. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCES: Kienast, M., 2000, Unchanged nitrogen isotopic 
composition of organic matter in the South China Sea 
during the last climatic cycle: Global implications, 
Paleoceanography, v.15, No.2, pp.244-253, April 2000.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES, CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
Wang, L., M. Sarnthein, H. Erlenkeuser, J. Grimalt, P. Grootes, 
S. Heilig, E. Ivanova, M. Kienast, C. Pelejero, and U. Pflaumann, 
East Asian monsoon climate during the late Quaternary: 
High-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea, 
Mar. Geol., 156, 245-284, 1999.

Pelejero, C., J. O. Grimalt, S. Heilig, M. Kienast, and L. Wang, 
High resolution Uk37-temperature reconstructions in the 
South China Sea over the past 220 kyr, 
Paleoceanography, 14 (2), 224-231, 1999.


FUNDING SOURCE: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council 
of Canada (grants to Dr. S.E. Calvert)

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: South China Sea 
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-200 KYrBP

LIST OF FILES: Readme.kienast1999.txt (this file), tab-delimited 
ASCII text data tables: 15N.17924-3.data.txt, 15N.17940-2.data.txt, 
15N.17954-2.data.txt, 15N.17961-2.data.txt, 15N.17964-2-3.data.txt, 
15N.18284-3.data.txt, 15N.boxcore.data.txt, SCS-surf.data.txt.


DESCRIPTION:
South China Sea Sedimentary d15N records.
Six downcore records of d15N, one surface sediment d15N record, 
and one detailed boxcore profile of the coring sites.

Core locations:
Latitude/Longitude/Water depth:

core 17924-3: 19:24.6/118:50.8/3436m
core 17940-2: 20:07.0/117:23.0/1727m
core 17954-2: 14:47.8/111:31.5/1520m
core 17961-2: 08:30.4/112:19.9/1968m
core 17964-2 and -3: 06:09.5/112:12.8/1556m
core 18284-3: 5:32.5/110:32.4/226m

The d15N values are reported relative to air N2 with an analytical
precision of +/- 0.2 permil.