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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Documentation files for DSDP data:

General explanatory notes



Introduction


The files above provide background information for data generated by the DSDP and describe the original DSDP data formats. The original DSDP data and these documentation files were generated by the staff of DSDP at the Scripps Institutions of Oceanography. Some files also contain notes added by NGDC during original data processing for the version 1.0 DSDP CD-ROM set.


Cite as: Deep Sea Drilling Project (1989): Archive of Core and Site/Hole Data and Photographs from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V54M92G2 [access date]

These Web pages are from the Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 1-96 CD-ROM produced in 1989 and modified in 2000 by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Geophysical Data Center (now part of the National Centers for Environmental Information), and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder (now part of the World Data Service for Geophysics). Data were compiled in cooperation with the U.S. Science Support Program, of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (now the Consortium for Ocean Leadership), and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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