Tore Seamount Ocean Productivity Data: readme file
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Tore Seamount Ocean Productivity Data.
LAST UPDATE: 11/97 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: S.M.Lebreiro, CSIC-Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona,
and J.C.Moreno, F.F.Abrantes and U.Pflaumann.

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER:  97-028
SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: S.M.Lebreiro, et al, 
Tore Seamount Ocean Productivity Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 97-028.  NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program,
Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCES:
S.M.Lebreiro, J.C.Moreno, F.F.Abrantes and U.Pflaumann, Productivity and
paleoceanographic implications on the Tore Seamount (Iberaian Margin) during
the last 225 kyrs: foraminiferal evidence, Paleoceanography, vol. 12, nº 5,
pp. 718-727, October 1997.

S.M.Lebreiro, J.C.Moreno, I.N.McCave and P.P.E.Weaver, Evidence for Heinrich
layers off Portugal (Tore Seamount: 39ºN, 12ºW), Marine Geology, vol. 131,
nº 1/2, 47-56, 1996.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Iberian Margin, offshore Portugal
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-225 KYBP
LIST OF FILES: lebreiro1997.readme (this file), table1.txt, table2.txt,
table3.txt, table4.txt, table5.txt (tab-delimited ascii files).

DESCRIPTION: 
Paleoproductivity and paleo SST analysis of Tore Seamount (39º03´N, 12º35´W) 
sediments, including foraminiferal concentration, 
CaCO3 and organic carbon, and foraminiferal isotopic analysis.  
Data from piston core D11957P, water depth 3585m, length of core 635 cm, 
collected by British cruise Discovery 187, October 1989, 
chief-scientist,P.P.E.Weaver.  The core is stored at Southampton 
Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom.