Southwestern US Stalagmite and Climate Reconstruction Data: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Southwestern US Stalagmite and Climate Reconstruction Data

LAST UPDATE: 11/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Victor Polyak, University of New Mexico

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-079

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Polyak, V.J. and Asmerom, Y., 2001, 
Southwestern US Stalagmite and Climate Reconstruction Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-079. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Polyak, V.J. and Asmerom, Y., 2001.  
Late Holocene Climate and Cultural Changes in the 
Southwestern United States.  Science 294: 148-151. 

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Southern New Mexico, USA.
PERIOD OF RECORD: 2800 YrBP to the present

LIST OF FILES: Readme_carlsbad.txt (this file), 
carlsbad.xls (Microsoft Excel format).
carlsbad.txt (Tab-delimited ASCII format).


DESCRIPTION:
High resolution late Holocene climate reconstruction based on
variations in annual band thickness, growth-no growth records, 
and mineralogy in stalagmites.