Nordic Seas Pliocene-Pleistocene Ice Rafting Data: Readme file
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Nordic Seas Pliocene-Pleistocene Ice Rafting Data

LAST UPDATE: 1/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Eystein Jansen

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-006

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Jansen, et al., 2001, 
Nordic Seas Pliocene-Pleistocene Ice Rafting Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-006. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Jansen, E., T. Fronval, F. Rack, and 
J.E.T. Channell, 2000, Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history 
and cyclicity in the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr, 
Paleoceanography 15, No. 6, 709-721, December 2000.


FUNDING SOURCE: Norwegian Research Council

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: North Atlantic and Nordic Seas
PERIOD OF RECORD: 3.5 MMYrBP - Present.

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Jansen2000.txt (this file),
907-ird-depth.txt, 907-ird-tuned-agescale.txt
(tab-delimited ASCII format).


DESCRIPTION: 
The two files include IRD data and agemodel which appears in the paper:

Jansen et al., Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history and cyclicity in 
the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr, Paleoceanography 15, 709-721, 2000.

ODP Site 907 was drilled during Leg 162 in 1995 at:
69o14.99´N
12o41,89´W
in 1800 m water depth.

File 907-ird-depth.txt contains the IRD per gram data vs. depth mbsf 
and mcd. The a, b, c denotions after the mbsf depths denote which of 
the three holes (907 A,B and C) the sample was taken from.

File 907-ird-tuned-agescale.txt contains the tuned age scale which 
was used in the paper.