ODP 980 Isotope and IRD 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: ODP 980 Isotope and IRD Data 
LAST UPDATE: 10/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Jerry McManus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-065

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: 
McManus, J.F., Oppo, D.W., and Cullen, J.L., 2001, 
ODP 980 Isotope and IRD Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-065. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 


ORIGINAL REFERENCE: 
McManus, J.F., Oppo, D.W., and Cullen, J.L., 1999, 
A 0.5-million-year record of millennial-scale climate variability 
in the North Atlantic, Science 283: 971-975.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCE for 340-500 kyr data:
Oppo, D.W., McManus, J.F., and Cullen, J.L., 1998, 
Abrupt climate events 500,000 to 340,000 years ago: 
Evidence from subpolar North Atlantic sediments: 
Science, v. 279, p. 1335-1338).


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: North Atlantic 
PERIOD OF RECORD: 512 KyrBP-present

LIST OF FILES: Readme_McManus1999.txt (this file), 
tab-delimited ASCII text data files: 
980_benth_iso.txt, 980_ird.txt, 980_plank_iso.txt.


DESCRIPTION: 
ODP 980 Isotope and IRD Data

Planktic and benthic isotopes and ice-rafted debris (IRD) data 
From ODP Core 980, North Atlantic Ocean, 55 29'N, 14 42'W, 2179m,
used to reconstruct suborbital (1000-10,000 year) climatic instability
in the North Atlantic region.