Great Lakes Glacial Events Radiocarbon Dates: Readme file
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Great Lakes Glacial Events Radiocarbon Dates

LAST UPDATE: 2/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Tom Lowell, University of Cincinnati

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-016

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Lowell, T., 2001, 
Great Lakes Glacial Events Radiocarbon Dates, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-016.
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCES:  
Lowell, T.V., Hayward, R.K., and Denton, G.H., 1999, 
The role of climate oscillations in determining 
ice margin position: hypothesis, examples, and implications. 
In Mickelson, D.M and Atig, J.W. eds. 
Glacier Processes Past and Present, 
Geological Society of America Special Paper 337, p. 193-203.

Lowell, T.V., 1995, The application of radiocarbon age estimates 
to the dating of glacial sequences: An example from the Miami 
sublobe, Ohio.  Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 14, p. 85-94. 

Lowell, T.V., Savage, K.M., Brockman, C. S., and Stuckenrath, R., 1990, 
Radiocarbon analyses from Cincinati, Ohio and their implications for 
glacial stratigraphic interpretations, 
Quaternary Research, v. 34, p. 1-11. 


FUNDING SOURCE:  National Science Foundation, USA.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Great Lakes region, Central USA and Canada
PERIOD OF RECORD: 26-14 KYrBP

LIST OF FILES: Readme_GreatLakes14c.txt (this file),
GreatLakes14c.xls (Microsoft Excel format), 
GreatLakes14c.txt (tab-delimited ASCII format).


DESCRIPTION: 
Great Lakes Glacial Events Radiocarbon Dates

Location and sample information for database of glacial material 
from the Great Lakes region, USA.  

Field STRATASS is stratigraphic association - telling were the 
material is relative to the drift sequence.