MODERN AND FOSSIL OSTRACODE CENSUS DATA FROM THE WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN AND
SEAS AROUND JAPAN

By Thomas M. Cronin, Noriyuki Ikeya, Akihisa Kitamura, Mahito Watanabe,
and Takahiro Kamiya

This data set was developed in collaboration with Prof. Noriyuki Ikeya,
Institute of Geosciences, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, Prof.
Ikeya's students, and other Japanese colleagues, with support from the U.
S. Geological Survey Global Change and Climate History Program and grants
from the National Science Foundation (NSF grant INT: LTV-9013402) and the
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS grant EPAR-093).

Thomas M. Cronin
  Mail Stop 970
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Reston, Virginia 22092

  Tel: (703) 648-6363
  FAX: (703) 648-5420
  email: tcronin@geochange.er.usgs.gov

Noriyuki Ikeya
  Institute of Geosciences
  Shizuoka University
  Shizuoka 422, Japan

Akihisa Kitamura
  Department of Geology and Mineralogy
  Faculty of Science
  Kyoto University
  Kyoto, Japan

Mahito Watanabe
  Fuel Resources Department
  Geological Survey of Japan
  Tsukuba 305, Japan

Takahiro Kamiya
  Department of Geology
  Kanazawa University
  Kanazawa, Japan

This dataset is a digital form of information extracted from and ancillary
to the original reports, which were published in scientific journals.
Modifications to the structure and format of included digital files were
made by Peter Schweitzer to conform to guidelines of the Global Change and
Climate History Program.

Information taken from this data set should be cited as one of the
following publications:

    Ikeya, N., and Cronin, T.M., 1993, Quantitative analysis of Ostracoda
    and water masses around Japan: Application to Pliocene and Pleistocene
    Paleoceanography: Micropaleontology, vol. 39, p. 263-281.

    Cronin, T.M., Kitamura, A., Ikeya, N., Watanabe, M., Kamiya, T. in
    press. Late Pliocene climate change 3.4-2.3 Ma: Paleoceanographic
    record from the Yabuta Formation, Sea of Japan. Palaeogeography,
    Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Contents
Core
  Core/meta
  Core/raw
Derived

For correct attribution of an individual file, consult the catalog in the
file Contents/contents.txt.

For overview information, read Contents/ostpac.dif

An annotated list of included files is contained in Contents/contents.txt

Full documentation of the analytical methods is in Core/meta/report.txt

More about the USGS Global Change and Climate History program is available
by anonymous ftp on host geochange.er.usgs.gov in pub/info/Overview.txt.

Questions about dataset structure and file format should be directed to:

  Peter Schweitzer
  Mail Stop 906, National Center
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Reston, VA 20192

  Tel: (703) 648-6533
  FAX: (703) 648-6647
  email: pschweitzer@usgs.gov