Paleoceanography

All data in the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archive are contributed by research scientists. Contributors and references are available in readme or data file headers. Here is a Sample Data Citation.

Paleoceanography data are derived from many proxies found in deep sea sediments including trace metal and isotopic composition of fossil plankton, species composition, and lithology. The WDC archives data for all times in the past. You are likely to find data relevant to the PAGES and PAGES-CLIVAR timescales in our relational database, while data for older geologic times (more than 1 million years before present) will be found only in the by contributor directory of our FTP site. Coral and mollusk data are archived in their own sub-directories.

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Contributing Data

General Information on Contributing Data

Paleoceanography Data Contribution Form

Obtaining Data at the WDC

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Paleoceanography Search Engine

Download Paleoceanography Data

• CLIMAP
• SPECMAP
• Relative Sea Level
• Calcium Carbonate
• Planktonic Foraminifera

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Other Data Archives

Core Curators Database at NGDC

Delphi Database

Marine Geology and Geophysics at NGDC

Ocean Drilling Program Janus Database

PANGAEA

International Marine Global Change Study (IMAGES)

Archiving Agreements

An agreement with the editors provides for the archiving at the WDC of data published in Paleoceanography. Two Paleoceanography editorials (Volume 9 Number 3, June 1994) discuss Archiving data for Paleoceanography and Archiving data at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology.

Related Science Initiatives

International Marine Global Change Study (IMAGES)

Index to Marine Geological Samples Database maintained by the World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, which includes many more core samples than those cataloged by the WDC for Paleoclimatology.