Ice Core Interplanetary Dust Helium Isotope Data: Readme file
---------------------------------------------------------------------
              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
                                and 
                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
---------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Ice Core Interplanetary Dust Helium Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 11/2001 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo).
CONTRIBUTOR: Ed Brook, Washington State University.

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-077

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Brook, E.J., et al., 2001, 
Ice Core Interplanetary Dust Helium Isotope Data,  
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-077.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: 
Brook, E.J., Kurz, M.D., Curtice, J., and Cowburn, S., 2000,
Accretion of Interplantary Dust in Polar Ice, 
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 19, p. 3145 (2000GL011813)


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Global
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-97 KYrBP

FUNDING SOURCES: National Science Foundation (USA), 
National Aeronautical and Space Administration (USA).

LIST OF FILES: Readme_helium.txt (this file), 
helium.doc (Microsoft Word format).
helium.txt (Tab-delimited ASCII format).

DESCRIPTION: Ice Core Interplanetary Dust Helium Isotope Data
Helium isotope data from Ice Cores at GISP2 (Greenland) and 
Vostok (Antarctica) as a proxy for extraterrestrial dust flux.