Arabian Sea Stable Isotope and TOC Data: 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: Arabian Sea Stable Isotope and TOC Data
LAST UPDATE: 10/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Dr. Hartmut Schulz, 
Institut für Ostseeforschung IOW

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-069

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Schulz, H., et al., 2001, 
Arabian Sea Stable Isotope and TOC Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-069. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Schulz, H., von Rad, U. & H. Erlenkeuser, 1998. 
Correlation between Arabian Sea and Greenland climate oscillations 
for the past 110,000 years.  Nature, 393: 54-57.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Arabian Sea
PERIOD OF RECORD: 110 KYrBP-Present

LIST OF FILES: readme_schulz1998.txt (this file), 
093cmage.txt, 093kliso.txt, 093veloc.txt, 111cmage.txt,
111kltoc.txt, 136cmage.txt, 136kltoc.txt, position.txt
(Tab-delimited text format), supptoba.doc, supp_14c.doc.
(Nature Supplementary Information files, Arabian Cores 
14C ages and Indian Ocean Toba Ash composition, Microsoft Word format)

DESCRIPTION:
Arabian Sea Stable Isotope and TOC Data

(1) 093cmage.txt: column 1: Core depth (cm), column 2: Age (Calendar kyr.).
(2) 093kliso.txt: column 1: Core depth (cm), column 2: Age (Calendar kyr.), 
    column 3: O-18 vs. PDB (per mil).
(3) 093veloc.txt: column 1: Core depth (cm), column 2: Age (Calendar kyr.), 
    column 3: Sonic velocity (m*10(exp3)*s(-1).
(4) 111cmage.txt: column 1: Core depth (cm), column 2: Age (Calendar kyr.).
(5) 111kltoc.txt: column 1: Core depth (cm), column 2: Age (Calendar kyr.), 
    column 3: Sediment lightness (L*a*b* color system), 
    column 4: Estimated total organic carbon content (%).  
(6) 136cmage.txt: column 1: Core depth (cm), column 2: Age (Calendar kyr.).
(7) 136kltoc.txt: column 1: Core depth (cm), column 2: Age (Calendar kyr.), 
    column 3: Sediment lightness (L*a*b* color system), 
    column 4: Estimated total organic carbon content (%).
(8) position.txt: column 1: Core number, column 2: Latitude, column 3: Longitude, 
    column 4: water depth (m), column 5: Core length (cm).