Scripps Institution of Oceanography Southeast Asian Sediment Description (SEATAR) Data Set: README file NGDC Data Set # 0249 obtained from: U.S. Department of Commerce National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration U.S. National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/mggd.html) & collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/wdcmgg) _______________________________________________________________________ NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THESE DATA _______________________________________________________________________ CONTRIBUTORS: Jane Frazer and Mary Fisk, Scripps Institution of Oceanography NAME OF DATA SET: SIO SEATAR File LAST UPDATE: 1979 (original receipt date by NGDC) GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Southeast Asian region of the Pacific Ocean DATA VOLUME: approximately 5.6 mbytes MGG IDENTIFIER: MGG15995014 LIST OF FILES seatar1 (stations), seatar2 (descriptions), seatar3 (references), README (this file). related files: additional geophysical data and nondigital geological data are also available produced by SIO for the SEATAR project. please contact NGDC for more details: Ms. Robin Warnken, 303-497-6339; fax 303-497-6513; email rrw@mail.ngdc.noaa.gov. SUMMARY The SEATAR files were compiled by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with funds from IDOE/NSF, as part of the SIO world sediment data bank, under the direction of Jane Frazer and Mary Fisk. Date were abstracted from published sources through 1976 and include descriptions of over 8,000 core, dredge, and grab samples from the area 15 degrees south to 45 degrees north, 90 degrees to 150 degrees east. The Indian Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Inland Sea, Eastern China Sea, Yellow Sea, Japan Sea, East Indian Archipelago, Coral Sea, Solomon Sea, and Bismarck Seas are included. The files include station information, bibliographic references, and descriptive information including lithology, percent CaCO3, constituents by grain size, organic material/fossils, ages, other features, and minerals. Additional SEATAR data in other formats are also available through NGDC. ORIGINAL REFERENCES Frazer, J.Z., and Hawkins, D.L., Index to Sediment Samples from East and Southeast Asian Seas. 1976. SIO Reference No. 76-3. University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. NSF Grant IDO75-16025. Frazer, J.Z., and M.B. Fisk, Sediment Data Bank Users Handbook. 1978. SIO Reference No. 78-10. University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Frazer, J.Z., Freelander, N.A., and Hawkins, D.L., Sediment Data Bank Coding Instructions. 1978. SIO Reference No. 78-9. University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. AVAILABILITY Data are available for free download from NGDC's Web server. NGDC/WDC MGG Technical Contact: Carla Moore NOAA/NGDC E/GC3 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80305 USA phone: 303-497-6339 fax: 303-497-6513 email: Carla.J.Moore@noaa.gov DOCUMENTATION _________________________________________________________________________ The sediment description records are self-explanatory, with lithologies fully explained in the reference cited below. Each file is ASCII with fixed-length fields. Column headers are embedded in each file, as received by NGDC from SIO. For more complete information on methodologies and codes used in the SIO data, please consult the following reference: Frazer, J.Z., Freelander, N.A., and D.L. Hawkins, 1978, Sediment Data Bank Coding Instructions: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Reference No. 78-9, University of California, 26 p. Station Records Associated with Description Records One Station Record was coded for each core, dredge or other sample. If seafloor photographs were taken in conjunction with other sampling, they are not coded as separate stations. If seafloor photographs were taken where no other sampling occurred, they are coded as separate stations. Begin Column Format Item ______ ______ ____ 3 A7 Sequence number 11 A12 Ship/Cruise/Station number 24 F6.3 Latitude 30 A1 N or S 32 F7.3 Longitude 39 A1 E or W 41 A12 Sample Device 55 I5 Water Depth (m) corrected or uncorrected 61 F8.2 Core Length (cm) 70 A4 Institution Code: FSU = Florida State University HIG = Hawaii Institute of Geophysics LDGO = Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory OSU = Oregon State University USSR = Akademiia Nauk, USSR SIO = Scripps Institution of Oceanography WHOI = Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 75 A4 Reference - a letter followed by three digits to indicate the data source. Each reference is keyed to an entry in the SIO bibliography file. 87 I6 Sediment Description Record number 94 I6 Nodule Analysis Record number Sediment Description Records The format of sediment description records is self-explanatory from headers imbedded in the data file. Reference Records References are plain ASCII text and their format is self-explanatory.