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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Astronomical timescale for the lower Pleistocene

Map of data site
Shackleton, N.J., A. Berger, and W.R. Peltier. 1990. An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 81:251.
Data Coverage North: 1.2 * South: 1.2
West: -83.73 * East: -83.73
Altitude: -3450 m

Start Year: 2602000 14C yr BP * End Year: 6000 14C yr BP

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  shackleton1990
  odp-677-tab.txt

Summary:

Records of past climate and ocean circulation derived from marine sediments. 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.
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Parameters:

delta O18 PDB (Planktonic Foraminifers); delta O18 PDB (Benthic Foraminifers); radiocarbon years before 1950AD

Complete XML Record:

noaa-ocean-2514  (Last Revised: 2007-12-21 )

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