Major Climate Terminations 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: Major Climate Terminations Data 
LAST UPDATE: 8/97 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS:  M. Raymo 
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER:  97-024

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:  
Raymo, 1997, Major Climate Terminations Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 97-024
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
Raymo, M.E., "The timing of major climate terminations", 
Paleoceanography, v. 12, p. 577-585, 1997.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: 
PERIOD OF RECORD: 
LIST OF FILES:  raymo1997b.readme(this file), md900963.iso.txt, s663.iso.txt, 
s846.iso.txt, s664.iso1.txt, s849.iso1.txt, s607.iso1.txt, s677.iso.txt,
s925.iso.txt, s659.iso.txt, s806.iso.txt, v28-239.iso.txt 

DESCRIPTION:

The data from figure 1 of above paper are presented in the following 
eleven data files (one for each core presented).  Each data set consists of 
depth in core and oxygen isotope data.  To construct the age models 
for these records use time control points given in Table 2 of the paper.  
The original reference for each data set (e.g., where the data was first published) 
are given here and in Table 1 of paper.  Keep in mind that most of these records 
were published with a composite depth scale and/or species adjustments 
which are usually discussed in the original reference.  

s664.iso.txt   (for additional information see:  Raymo, M.E., D.W. Oppo, and W. Curry, 
Origin of the 100 Kyr climate cycle: a deep sea carbon isotope perspective, 
Paleoceanography, v. 12, 546-559, 1997).

s663.iso.txt  ·(from: deMenocal, P.B., W.F. Ruddiman, and E.M. Pokras, 
Influences of high- and low-latitude processes on African climate: 
Pleistocene eolian records from equatorial Atlantic Ocean Drilling Program Site 663, 
Paleoceanography, v. 8 (2), 209-242, 1993.)

md900963.iso.txt  ( from: Bassinot, F. C., L. Beaufort, E. Vincent, L. Labeyrie, 
F. Rostek, P. J. Muller, X. Quidelleur, and Y. Lancelot, 
Coarse fraction fluctuations in pelagic carbonate sediments from the 
tropical Indian Ocean: A 1500-kyr record of carbonate dissolution, 
Paleoceanography, 9, 579-599, 1994.)

s607.iso.txt   (from: Ruddiman, W. F., M. E. Raymo, D. G. Martinson, 
B. M. Clement, and J. Backman, Pleistocene evolution of northern hemisphere climate, 
Paleoceanography, 4, 353-412, 1989.)

s659.iso.txt   (from: Tiedemann, R., M. Sarnthein, and N. J. Shackleton, 
Astronomic timescale for the Pliocene Atlantic d18O and dust flux records 
of ODP Site 659, Paleoceanography, 9, 619-638, 1994.)

s677.iso.txt   (from:  Shackleton, N.J., A. Berger, and W. R. Peltier, 
An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale 
based on ODP site 677, Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh Earth Sci., 81, 251-261, 1990.)

s806.iso.txt   (from: Berger, W.H., M. Yasuda, T. Bickert, G. Wefer, and T. Takayama, 
Quaternary timescale for the Ontong Java Plateau: 
Milankovitch template for Ocean Drilling Program Site 806,Geology, 22, 463-467, 1994.)

s846.iso.txt   (from: Mix, A.C., N. G. Pisias, W. Rugh, J. Wilson, A. Morey, 
and T. Hagelberg, Benthic foraminiferal stable isotope record form Site 849, 0-5 Ma: 
Local and global climate changes, edited by N.G. Pisias et al., 
Proc. Ocean Drill. Program, Sci. Results, 138, 371-412, 1995.)

s849.iso.txt   (from:  Mix, A.C., J. Le, and N.J. Shackleton, 
Benthic foraminiferal stable isotope stratigraphy of Site 846: 0-1.8 Ma, 
edited by N.G. Pisias et al., Proc. Ocean Drill. Program, 
Sci. Results, 138, 839-854, 1995.)

s925.iso.txt   (from:  Bickert, T., W. B. Curry, and G. Wefer, 
Late Pliocene to Holocene (2.6 - 0 Ma) western equatorial Atlantic 
deep water circulation: Inferences from benthic stable isotopes, ODP Leg 154, 
edited by N. J. Shackleton et al., 
Proc. Ocean Drill. Program Sci. Results, 154, in press, 1997.)

v28-239.iso.txt   (from:  Shackleton, N.J. and N. D. Opdyke, 
Oxygen-isotope and paleomagnetic stratigraphy of Pacific Core V28-239: 
Late Pliocene to Latest Pleistocene, Mem Geol. Soc. Am. 145, 449-464, 1976.)