Gulf of California d15Norg and Opal Records: Readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Gulf of California d15Norg and Opal Records.
LAST UPDATE: 3/1999 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  

CONTRIBUTORS: Carol Pride, Robert Thunell, and Eric Tappa

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1999-024

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Pride, C., et al, 1999,
Gulf of California d15Norg and Opal Records.
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1999-024.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:  Pride, C., R. Thunell, D. Sigman, 
L. Keigwin, M. Altabet, and E. Tappa, 1999,
Nitrogen isotopic variations in the Gulf of California since 
the last deglaciation: Response to global climate change. 
Paleoceanography, v14, No. 3, pp397-409, June 1999.

FUNDING SOURCE:  National Science Foundation, USA.
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Gulf of California
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-20KYrBP

LIST OF FILES: Readme.pride1999.txt (this file), JPC-56_GGC-55.xls 
(Microsoft Excel workbook), JPC56.opal.txt, JPC56.d15Norg.txt, 
GGC55.d15Norg.txt, and GGC55.opal.txt (Individual Tab-delimited ASCII 
text files of Excel sheets).

DESCRIPTION: 
Core GGC-55 
latitude: 27o 28.22'N   longitude: 112o  6.33'W  water depth: 820 m

Core JPC-56 
latitude: 27o 28.16'N   longitude: 112o  6.26'W  water depth: 818 m

Variables: d15Norg (‰)[air], opal content (%), 
opal accumulation rates (mg . cm-2 . yr-1)