Sulu Sea ODP769A Stable Isotope Data: 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:  Sulu Sea ODP769A Stable Isotope Data

LAST UPDATE: 3/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Brad Linsley, University at Albany 

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-021

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Linsley, B. K., 2001, 
Sulu Sea ODP769A Stable Isotope Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-021.
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Linsley, B.K., 1996, 
Oxygen isotope evidence of sea level and climatic variations 
in the Sulu Sea over the past 150,000 years.  
Nature, vol 380, p234-237. 


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Sulu Sea, Western Tropical Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD: 150 KYrBp-present

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Linsley1996.txt (this file),
769a.txt (tab-delimited ASCII format).


DESCRIPTION: 
Stable isotope data from Ocean Drilling Program Site 769 
in the Sulu Sea, on the edge of the Western Pacific Warm Pool.

del18O measurements on G. ruber samples from ODP769 as a 
proxy for Sea Level and global continental ice volume.