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  <Entry_ID>noaa-cave-6095</Entry_ID>
  <Entry_Title>Hu et al. 2008 Heshang Cave, China 9KYr Stalagmite HS4 Stable Isotope Data</Entry_Title>
  <Data_Set_Citation>
    <Dataset_Creator>Hu, C.-Y.; Henderson, G.M.; Huang, J.; Xie, S.-C.; Sun, Y.; Johnson, K.R.</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Hu et al. 2008 Heshang Cave, China 9KYr Stalagmite HS4 Stable Isotope Data</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2011-03-17</Dataset_Release_Date>
    <Dataset_Publisher>NCDC-Paleoclimatology</Dataset_Publisher>
    <Data_Presentation_Form>ONLINE Files</Data_Presentation_Form>
    <Dataset_DOI>Pending</Dataset_DOI>
    <Online_Resource>https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/6095</Online_Resource>
  </Data_Set_Citation>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>C.-Y.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Hu</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>G.M.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Henderson</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>J.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Huang</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>S.-C.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Xie</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>Y.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Sun</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>K.R.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Johnson</Last_Name>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>speleothems</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>age,null,null,calendar year before present,null,speleothems,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>speleothems</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>depth,null,null,centimeter,null,speleothems,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>speleothems</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>delta 18O,calcium carbonate,null,per mil VPDB,null,speleothems,raw,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>speleothems</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>delta 13C,calcium carbonate,null,per mil VPDB,null,speleothems,raw,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>speleothems</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>carbon isotopes</Variable_Level_1>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>speleothems</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>oxygen isotopes</Variable_Level_1>
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  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>-7470 AD</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>2000 AD</Paleo_Stop_Date>
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  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>9420 cal yr BP</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>-50 cal yr BP</Paleo_Stop_Date>
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  <Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>30.45</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>30.45</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>110.416</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>110.416</Easternmost_Longitude>
    <Minimum_Altitude>294</Minimum_Altitude>
    <Maximum_Altitude>294</Maximum_Altitude>
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  <Location>
    <Location_Category>Continent</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>Asia</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>Eastern Asia</Location_Subregion1>
    <Location_Subregion2>China</Location_Subregion2>
    <Detailed_Location>Heshang Cave&gt;LATITUDE 30.45&gt;LONGITUDE 110.416</Detailed_Location>
  </Location>
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  <Use_Constraints>Please cite original publication, online resource, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, title, online resource, and date accessed. The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site.</Use_Constraints>
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      <Short_Name>DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </Long_Name>
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    <Data_Center_URL>https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data</Data_Center_URL>
    <Personnel>
      <Role>DATA Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>Bruce</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>Bauer</Last_Name>
      <Email>bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Email>paleo@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Phone>303-497-6280</Phone>
      <Fax>303-497-6513</Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>325 Broadway, E/NE31</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80305-3328</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
      </Contact_Address>
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  <Distribution>
    <Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Format>ASCII</Distribution_Format>
  </Distribution>
  <Reference/>
  <Summary>
    <Abstract>Records of past temperature, precipitation, and other aspects of climate derived from mineral deposits found in caves. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set.  Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations.
 
          STUDY NOTES: DESCRIPTION:   
The dataset is a high resolution d18O and d13C record for the Holocene 
from a cave in the Yangtze Valley in central China.  Stable isotope 
samples were drilled continuously from the entire length of HS-4.  
A total of 1223 samples were measured on a Finnegan MAT 251 instrument 
at Wuhan, China with a precision of 0.1 per mil (based on long-term 
repeatability of standard measurements).  These have a resolution 
of ~2 years in the uppermost 2000 years and, on average, 16 years 
in the rest of the record. The chronology of stalagmite HS-4 has been 
established independently by U-Th dating (21 samples measured by 
MC-ICP-MS at Oxford University) and layer counting.  Full details 
of the chronology and age model are provided in Hu et al. 2008.

</Abstract>
  </Summary>
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      <Type>GET DATA</Type>
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    <URL>https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/syntrace/speleothem/cave-heshang-hs-4.txt</URL>
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      <Type>GET DATA</Type>
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    <URL>https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/china/heshang2008.txt</URL>
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