Zinc Concentrations in Benthic Foraminifera: 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: Zinc Concentrations in Benthic Foraminifera 

LAST UPDATE: 4/2000 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Marchitto, T.M., Curry, W.B., and Oppo, D.W.

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-026

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Marchitto, T.M., Curry, W.B., and Oppo, D.W., 2000, 
Zinc Concentrations in Benthic Foraminifera, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2000-026. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Marchitto, T.M., Curry, W.B., and Oppo, D.W., 2000,
Zinc concentrations in benthic foraminifera reflect seawater 
chemistry, Paleoceanography, v.15, No. 3, pp.299-306, June 2000. 

FUNDING SOURCES: JOI/USSAC, US NSF, R.H. Cole Ocean Ventures Fund (WHOI)

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Global ocean
PERIOD OF RECORD: Late Holocene.

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Marchitto2000.txt (this file),
calib-indiv.txt, calibration.txt, dissolution.txt, multicores.txt
(tab-delimited ASCII format).

DESCRIPTION: Benthic foraminiferal Zn/Ca and Mn/Ca data used to show 
that foraminifera reflect bottom water chemistry. 
Also Cd/Ca data from a laboratory dissolution experiment. 
See Marchitto et al. (in press 2000) for details.

UNITS:
seawater [Si], DCO3: umol/kg
seawater [Zn], ZnW: nmol/kg
Zn/Ca, Mn/Ca, Cd/Ca: umol/mol
foram sample [Ca]: mM

ANALYTICAL PRECISION:
Zn/Ca ~0.1 umol/mol
Cd/Ca ~0.007 umol/mol
Mn/Ca ~6 umol/mol