North Atlantic Plio-Pleistocene IRD and 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: North Atlantic Plio-Pleistocene IRD and Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 10/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine McIntyre, M.L. Delaney, and A.C. Ravelo

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-066

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: McIntyre, K., M.L. Delaney, and A.C. Ravelo, 2001, 
North Atlantic Plio-Pleistocene IRD and Isotope Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-066. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: McIntyre, K., M.L. Delaney, and A.C. Ravelo, 2001,
Millennial-scale climate change and oceanic processes in the late Pliocene
and early Pleistocene, Paleoceanography Vol. 16, No. 5, Pages 535-543, 
October 2001.

FUNDING SOURCES: National Science Foundation, USA.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: North Atlantic
PERIOD OF RECORD: Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene, 1.93-1.75 MMYrBP

LIST OF FILES: readme_mcintyre2001.txt (this file), 
mis64.txt, mis70.txt (Tab-delimited text format).

DESCRIPTION:
North Atlantic Plio-Pleistocene IRD and Isotope Data, 
as a proxy for millennial-scale climate change.

Data set name MIS64.txt
Latitude 60°24' N
Longitude 23°38' W
Bathymetry 1983 m.

Variable names:
Depth, Age, %N. pachyderma sinistral,  %N. pachyderma dextral, 
C. wuellerstorfi d13C,   C. wuellerstorfi d18O, 
IRD>212um/gram bulk sediment,  %Coarse fraction

Variable units: 
(mcd), (Ma),  (% total foraminifera),  (% total foraminifera),
(per mil), (per mil), (IRD>212um/gram bulk sediment), 
(grams sediment>63um/grams bulk sediment)


Data set name MIS70.txt
Latitude 60°24' N
Longitude 23°38' W
Bathymetry 1983 m.

Variable names:
Depth, Age, C. wuellerstorfi d13C, C. wuellerstorfi d18O, 
IRD>212um/gram bulk sediment, %Coarse fraction

Variable units: 
(mcd), (Ma), (per mil), (per mil), (IRD>212um/gram bulk sediment), 
(grams sediment>63um/grams bulk sediment)