Cibicidoides Stable Isotopic Data From 
Middle Miocene Southwest Pacific DSDP Sites: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

CONTRIBUTORS: Benjamin P. Flower and James P. Kennett,
Univ of California, Santa Cruz 
IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #:  95-020
NAME OF DATA SET: Cibicidoides Stable Isotopic Data 
From Middle Miocene Southwest Pacific DSDP Sites
LAST UPDATE: 7/95 (Original receipt date by NOAA Paleo) 
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Southwest Pacific 
PERIOD OF RECORD: Middle Miocene, approximately 12-18 MYBP
LIST OF FILES: SWPac.DOC (Microsoft Word format), SWPac.csv (comma delimited
ASCII text), SWPac.txt (space delimited ASCII text), Readme(this file).

DESCRIPTION: Delta 18O and delta 13C (per mil PDB, precision 0.11 and 0.1 
per mil, respectively) data from 5 Southwest Pacific DSDP Sites.  Cibicidoides
was analyzed in all samples.   For samples marked by "m", "c", and "r",
Cibicidoides mundulus, C. coryelli, and C. renzi, respectively, were analyzed.
All other samples are C. wuellerstorfi.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:  Middle Miocene Deepwater Paleoceanography in the
Southwest Pacific: Relations with East Antarctic Ice Sheet Development,
Paleoceanography, v10, No.6, pp1095-1112, December 1995.

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Flower, B., 1995, Stable Isotope Foram Data, SW Pacific DSDP Sites.  IGBP PAGES/World Data
Center-A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 95-020.  NOAA/NGDC
Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.