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Subantarctic sea surface temperatures and salinity change

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Mashiotta, T.A., D.W. Lea, and H.J. Spero. 1999. Glacial-interglacial changes in Subantarctic sea surface temperature and d18O-water using foraminiferal Mg. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 170:417-432.
Data Coverage North: -43.52 * South: -56.07
West: -115.1 * East: 79.87
Altitude: -3193 m

Start Year: 293700 14C yr BP * End Year: 2700 14C yr BP

Data:     Please Cite Data Contributors!
  mashiotta1999
  e11-2m-tab.txt
  rc11120m-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 (Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (left coiling)); Magnesium/Calcium ratio; delta O18 SMOW; Sea Surface Temperature (C); radiocarbon years before 1950AD; delta O18 PDB (Globigerina bulloides)

Complete XML Record:

noaa-ocean-2542  (Last Revised: 2007-12-21 )

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