California Current Planktonic Foraminifera Trap Data: Readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: California Current Planktonic Foraminifera Trap Data.
LAST UPDATE: 3/1999 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Joseph Ortiz, LDEO

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1999-015
SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: 
California Current Planktonic Foraminifera Trap Data,
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1999-015.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Ortiz, J.D., and A.C. Mix, 1992, 
The Spatial Distribution and Seasonal Succession of Planktonic Foraminifera 
in the California Current System off Oregon, September 1987-September 1988. 
in Geological Society Special Publication No. 64, Upwelling Systems: 
Evolution Since the Early Miocene. 
(eds. C.P. Summerhays, W. Prell and K.C. Emeis). London, 1992.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: California Current, northeast Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD: Modern
LIST OF FILES: Readme.ortiz1992.txt (this file), 
Table1.MT.sed.trap.forams.doc (Microsoft Word format), 
Table1.MT.sed.trap.forams.txt (Tab-delimited ASCII).

DESCRIPTION: 
Season sediment trap data in the California Current off Oregon, USA.