Santa Barbara Basin Denitrification d15N Data: 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: Santa Barbara Basin Denitrification d15N Data

LAST UPDATE: 1/2000 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Robert Thunell, University of South Carolina

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-008

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Thunell, R.C., and Emmer, E., 2000, 
Santa Barbara Basin Denitrification d15N Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2000-008. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Edwin Emmer and Robert C. Thunell, 2000, 
Nitrogen Isotope Variations in Santa Barbara Basin Sediments: 
Implications for Denitrification in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific 
During the Last 50,000 Years.  Paleoceanography, Vol. 15 , No. 4 , p. 377.

FUNDING SOURCE:  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Santa Barbara Basin, Eastern North Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD: 50KYrBP - present

LIST OF FILES: Readme.emmer2000.txt (this file), 
893a-n15.xls(Microsoft Excel format),
893a-n15.txt (tab-delimited ASCII format).

DESCRIPTION:
Santa Barbara Basin Denitrification d15N Data

ODP Site 893A 
Latitude:		34° 17.25' N
Longitude:		120° 02.2' W
Bathymetry:		576.5 meters

Variable names:	Depth in core, del15N
Variable units:		meters, %o PDB

The file 893a-n15.xls contains sample depth and del15N values 
from ODP Site 893a in the Santa Barbara Basin.  
The data was generated on a Fisons Elemental Analyzer connected 
to a Micromass Optima Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer.