Great Barrier Reef Coral Isotope Data: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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              World Data Center A - for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Great Barrier Reef Coral Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 6/1995 

CONTRIBUTOR: Druffel, E.R.M.
IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #:  1994-022

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Druffel, E., 1994, Great Barrier Reef
Coral Isotope Data.  
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1994-022.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Druffel, E.R.M. and S. Griffin, 1993, Large Variations
of Surface Ocean Radiocarbon: Evidence of Circulation Changes in the
Southwestern pacific, Journal of Geophysical Research v.98, no c11,
pp 20246-20259.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Western Pacific, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
PERIOD OF RECORD: 1635-1957

LIST OF FILES: ABRA13C.TXT and ABRA14C.TXT (modified 6/95)

DESCRIPTION: 
Site: Abraham Reef,  22 06'S, 153 00'E, Porites australiensus,
Radiocarbon (delta 14C) and Stable Isotope (del 18O and del 13C) 
results from bi-annual samples from a 323 banded coral series from
the southern Great Barrier Reef.