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  <Entry_ID>noaa-coral-1841</Entry_ID>
  <Entry_Title>Nauru Island - Radiocarbon Data </Entry_Title>
  <Data_Set_Citation>
    <Dataset_Creator>Guilderson, T.P.; Schrag, D.P.; Kashgarian, M.; Southon, J.R.</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Nauru Island - Radiocarbon Data </Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>1998-07-01</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/1841</Online_Resource>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>T.P.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Guilderson</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>D.P.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Schrag</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>M.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Kashgarian</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>J.R.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Southon</Last_Name>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>age,null,null,year Common Era,null,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>Delta 14C,Porites sp.,null,per mil NBS oxalic acid,null,corals and sclerosponges,corrected,accelerator mass spectrometry,N,corrected for a delta 13C of -25 per mil PDB and for decay since the time of formation (Stuiver and Polach 1977)</Detailed_Variable>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>sample identification,null,null,null,null,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>carbon isotopes</Variable_Level_1>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>age control</Variable_Level_1>
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    <Paleo_Stop_Date>1995 AD</Paleo_Stop_Date>
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  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>3 cal yr BP</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>-45 cal yr BP</Paleo_Stop_Date>
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  <Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>-.5</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>-.5</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>166</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>166</Easternmost_Longitude>
    <Minimum_Altitude>-14</Minimum_Altitude>
    <Maximum_Altitude>-14</Maximum_Altitude>
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  <Location>
    <Location_Category>Ocean</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>Pacific Ocean</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>Western Pacific Ocean</Location_Subregion1>
    <Location_Subregion2>Micronesia</Location_Subregion2>
    <Location_Subregion3>Nauru</Location_Subregion3>
    <Detailed_Location>Nauru Island&gt;LATITUDE -.5&gt;LONGITUDE 166</Detailed_Location>
  </Location>
  <Access_Constraints>None</Access_Constraints>
  <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>
  <Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
  <Data_Center>
    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </Long_Name>
    </Data_Center_Name>
    <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>
    </Personnel>
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  <Distribution>
    <Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Format>ASCII</Distribution_Format>
  </Distribution>
  <Reference>Guilderson, T.P., D.P. Schrag, M. Kashgarian, and J. Southon. 1998. Radiocarbon variability in the western equatorial Pacific inferred from a high-resolution coral record from Nauru Island. Journal of Geophysical Research 103:24641-24650.</Reference>
  <Summary>
    <Abstract>Records of past climate and ocean environment derived from stable isotope, trace metal, and other measurements made on corals and sclerosponges.  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.
</Abstract>
  </Summary>
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      <Type>GET DATA</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/readme_nauru14c.txt</URL>
  </Related_URL>
  <Related_URL>
    <URL_Content_Type>
      <Type>GET DATA</Type>
    </URL_Content_Type>
    <URL>https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/nauru14c.txt</URL>
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