MANOP Site C Data Set: readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

CONTRIBUTOR: Fredrick Prahl, Oregon State University
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER:  95-034
NAME OF DATA SET: MANOP Site C Data Set 
LAST UPDATE: 12/95 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0 - 26 KYRBP
LIST OF FILES:  ASCII text files W8402A.TXT, readme. 

DESCRIPTION:
Lipid biomarker data from MANOP Site C (0 57.2 N, 138 57.3W).
This file contains the alkenone and terrestrial fatty acid data that 
was published in Prahl et al. (1989) and Lyle et al. (1992).  It also 
includes some unpublished data.  


ORIGINAL REFERENCES:
Prahl, F.G., L.A. Muehlhausen, and M. Lyle, 1995, 
An organic geochemical assessment of oceanographic conditions 
at MANOP site C over the past 26,000 years,
Paleoceanography 4(5), pp 495-510.

Lyle, M.W, F.G. Prahl, and M.A. Sparrow, 1992, Upwelling and 
productivity changes inferred from a temperature record in the 
central equatorial Pacific, Nature v355, 27 February 1992, pp812-815.   


SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Prahl, F., 1995, Manop Site C Alkenones Data.  IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for
Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 95-034.  NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program,
Boulder CO, USA.