Elk Lake, Minnesota, Ostracod Abundance and Geochemical Data: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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              World Data Center A - for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Elk Lake, Minnesota, Ostracod Abundance and Geochemical Data
LAST UPDATE: 1/2000 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: A.J. Smith, J.J. Donovan, E. Ito, and D.R. Engstrom

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-012

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Smith, A.J., et al, 2000, 
Elk Lake, Minnesota, Ostracod Abundance and Geochemical Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2000-012. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: A.J. Smith, J.J. Donovan, E. Ito, and D.R. Engstrom, 1997,
Ground-water processes controlling a prairie lake's response to middle
Holocene drought.  Geology, 25, 391-394.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Central USA
PERIOD OF RECORD: 12 KYrBP - present

FUNDING SOURCE: National Science Foundation, USA
EAR-9304741 (Hydrologic Science Program)

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Smith1997.txt (this file), 
ElkLake.Smith1997.xls (Microsoft Excel Format),
14C.data.txt, geochem.data.txt, ostracod.data.txt
(tab-delimited ASCII format).

DESCRIPTION:
Elk Lake ostracod abundance and geochemical data for
mid-Holocene groundwater modeling and drought reconstruction.

Elk Lake, Grant County, Minnesota USA
Elevation: 1202 ft
Latitude: 45 52 01N
Longitude: 095 48 13W
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Hoffman	

Cored, March 1994
Maximum water depth at the time of coring:  9.1 m
Field party:  A.J. Smith, D.R. Engstrom, E. Ito, B.J. Haskell, 
Z. Gong, O. Olson

Some of the data were previously archived with the Geological Society of
America as GSA Data Depository item 9724.