Marine Geology Data

CLIMAP 120K Database

NGDC Data Set G00995

World Data Center for Geophysics & Marine Geology, Boulder

NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THESE DATA

CONTRIBUTORS:	CLIMAP Project Members
NAME OF DATA SET:	CLIMAP 120K Database
LAST UPDATE:	1984
GEOGRAPHIC REGION:	Global
PERIOD OF RECORD:	120,000 YBP
DATA VOLUME:	approximately 750 kilobytes
MGG IDENTIFIER:	MGG01995004
LIST OF FILES CLIMAP 120 data files (data), README (format info & complete documentation) tar file containing all of the above

SUMMARY

The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction) Project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE). Collection and analysis of cores for the 120K bp CLIMAP set was carried out by several institutions; data were compiled by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Data include micropaleontology, carbonate percentages, carbon 14 age dates, sea surface temperature estimates, and oxygen and carbon isotopic data for 52 ocean sediment cores. Data cover the period from 140,000 to 100,000 years before present and are global in extent.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: THE LAST INTERGLACIAL OCEAN, CLIMAP Members, Quaternary Research 21, 123-224, 1984.

SEARCHABLE DATA INVENTORY

NGDC/WDC GMG, Boulder archives a wide variety of digital marine geology data collections, paper reports, microfilm, etc. containing sediment and hardrock data. Many of the digital files are available for direct download. Sample-by-sample inventory information for all data, regardless of format available from NGDC are fully searchable through the marine geology inventory (GEOLIN).