North Pacific Eolian Sediment Mass Accumulation Rate Data: Readme file
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: North Pacific Eolian Sediment Mass Accumulation Rate Data.
LAST UPDATE: 6/98 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Rea, D.K., H. Snoeckx, and L.H. Joseph. 

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1998-024
SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: 
Rea, D.K., H. Snoeckx, and L.H. Joseph, North Pacific Eolian Sediment 
Mass Accumulation Rate Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1998-024.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Rea, D.K., H. Snoeckx, and L.H. Joseph, 1998. 
Late Cenozoic eolian deposition in the North Pacific: Asian drying, 
Tibetan uplift, and cooling of the northern hemisphere, 
Paleoceanography, v. 13, p. 215-224. 

FUNDING SOURCE: JOI-USSAC and NSF (USA)
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Asia/North Pacific 
PERIOD OF RECORD: Late Cenozoic 
LIST OF FILES: Rea1998.readme (this file), Tab-delimited ASCII data files
TableA1a-all-composite.txt, TableA1b-885A.txt, TableA1c-886B.txt, TableA1d-886C.txt.

DESCRIPTION:  
North Pacific Eolian Sediment Mass Accumulation Rate Data from 
ODP Site 885/886:  Latitude: 44.7°N, Longitude: 168.3°W, Depth: 5710 m

Data precision: 	Variable, commonly ±5 to 10%, see reference listed above