Punta Pitt Coral Ba/Ca Data Set: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Punta Pitt Coral Ba/Ca Data Set 
LAST UPDATE: 8/1995 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  

CONTRIBUTOR: J.E. Cole, University of Colorado

IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #: 1993-014

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: 
Cole, J., 1993, Punta Pitt Coral Ba/Ca Data Set.  
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1993-014.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
Lea, D.W., G.T. Shen, and E.A. Boyle, Coralline barium records temporal
variability in equatorial Pacific upwelling, Nature, 340, 373-376.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Galapagos Islands 
PERIOD OF RECORD: 1963-82 

LIST OF FILES:  GALAPBA.DAT

DESCRIPTION: 
Site: Punta Pitt, Isla San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
(0 40'S, 89 10'W)
Water depth 14m
Coral species Pavona clavus
Time span: 1963-82 at quarterly resolution

File contains Ba/Ca data (in mmol/mol) presented by Lea et al. (1989).
Samples were measured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by 
D. Lea. Ba determinations were performed on a VG PlasmaQuad inductively
coupled plasma mass spectrometer, and Ca was determined by flame atomic
absorption. Measurement precision is  1% for Ba/Ca. Ages for samples were
assigned on the basis of well-defined density banding. Annual growth
averaged 11mm/yr.