Equatorial East Atlantic Planktic Foraminifera Mg/Ca Data: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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              World Data Center A - for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Equatorial East Atlantic Planktic Foraminifera Mg/Ca Data

LAST UPDATE: 2/2000 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: D. Nuernberg, A. Mueller, R. R. Schneider

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-014

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Nuernberg, D., et al, 2000, 
Equatorial East Atlantic Planktic Foraminifera Mg/Ca Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2000-014. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Nuernberg, D., Mueller, A., and Schneider, R.R., 2000, 
Paleo-sea surface temperature calculations in the equatorial 
east Atlantic from Mg/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera, 
Paleoceanography, v.15, No.1, pp.124-134, February 2000.

FUNDING SOURCE:  German Science Foundation (DFG), Germany

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Equatorial East Atlantic
PERIOD OF RECORD: 275 KYrBP-Present

LIST OF FILES: Readme.nuernberg2000.txt (this file), 
1105.Mg-data.xls, 1112.Mg-data.xls (Microsoft Excel format),
1105.Mg-data.txt, 1112.Mg-data.txt (tab-delimited ASCII format).

DESCRIPTION:
Equatorial east Atlantic planktic foraminifera Mg/Ca data, used
by Nuernberg et al for SST reconstructions. 
 
Core 1105
Latitude: 1°39.9´S
Longitude: 12°25.7´W
Bathymetry: 3225 m

Core 1112
Latitude: 5°46.2´S
Longitude: 10°44.7´W
Bathymetry: 3122 m

Variable names: Depth; Age; Mg/Ca; SST
Variable unit: (cm); (kyr); (mmol/mol); (°C)
Data precision: relative standard deviation is < 1% for Mg and Ca,
the relative error in terms of SST is + 0.4°C