California Margin Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Data: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: California Margin Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 12/1999 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Lowell D. Stott, Michael Nuemann, and Douglas Hammond

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1999-061

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:  Stott, L.D., Nuemann, M., and Hammond, D., 1999, 
California Margin Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #1999-061. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Stott, L.D., Nuemann, M., and Hammond, D., 2000,  
Intermediate water ventilation on the northeastern Pacific margin 
during the late Pleistocene inferred from benthic foraminiferal d13C, 
Paleoceanography, v.15, No.2, pp161-169, April 2000.

FUNDING SOURCE:  National Science Foundation, USA.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: California margin/northeastern Pacific 
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-200 KYrBP 

LIST OF FILES: Readme.stott2000.txt (this file), 
Tab-delimited ASCII data files AHF16832.txt, EW9504-02.txt, 
EW9504-03.txt, EW9504-04.txt, EW9504-05.txt, EW9504-08.txt, 
EW9504-09.arch.txt.

DESCRIPTION:
California Margin Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Data.
Tab-delimited ASCII files of benthic and planktonic foraminiferal data. 
Each file is for a separate basin from the California margin. 
The cores (except for the AHF core) were collected as part of the
Site Survey cruise for ODP Leg 167. The file names refer to the core id.

Each file includes basin name, lat., long., water depth and core length.
This is followed by columns of sample depth, age model as described in the
paper, and the stable isotope data in per mill reported to the second
decimal place.