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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

North Atlantic ice rafting and deep water formation 70,000-130,000 years ago

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Chapman, M.R., and N.J. Shackleton. 1999. Global ice-volume fluctuations, North Atlantic ice-rafting events, and deep-ocean circulation changes between 130 and 70 ka. Geology 27:795-798.
Data Coverage North: 52.77 * South: 3.62
West: -83.97 * East: -30.35
Altitude: -3275 m

Start Year: 129990 14C yr BP * End Year: 55000 14C yr BP

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  chapman1999
  neap18k-tab.txt
  tr16331p-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 C13 PDB (Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi); radiocarbon years before 1950AD; delta O18 PDB (Globigerina bulloides); Ice Rafted Debris percent of Planktonics; delta O18 PDB (Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi); Sediment lightness (L*), CIE scale

Complete XML Record:

noaa-ocean-2537  (Last Revised: 2008-04-10 )

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