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  <Entry_Title>Arctic Ocean Section Porewater Chemistry Data, 1994</Entry_Title>
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    <Dataset_Creator>John P. Christensen</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Arctic Ocean Section Porewater Chemistry Data, 1994</Dataset_Title>
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    <Last_Name>Christensen</Last_Name>
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    <Term>Ocean Chemistry</Term>
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    <Term>Ocean Chemistry</Term>
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  <Keyword>ADCC</Keyword>
  <Keyword>ARCSS029</Keyword>
  <Keyword>ARCSS Data Coordination Center</Keyword>
  <Keyword>diagenetic process</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Office of Polar Programs</Keyword>
  <Keyword>OPP</Keyword>
  <Keyword>OPP-9400058</Keyword>
  <Keyword>porewater</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Sediment</Keyword>
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    <Short_Name>NISKIN BOTTLES</Short_Name>
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    <Short_Name>SEDIMENT CORERS</Short_Name>
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  <Temporal_Coverage>
    <Start_Date>1994-07-30</Start_Date>
    <Stop_Date>1994-08-26</Stop_Date>
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  <Data_Set_Progress>complete</Data_Set_Progress>
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    <Southernmost_Latitude>75.3665</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>88.8066</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>-174.2983</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>178.99</Easternmost_Longitude>
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    <Location_Category>OCEAN</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>ARCTIC OCEAN</Location_Type>
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    <Short_Name>ARCSS/OAII/AOS</Short_Name>
    <Long_Name>Arctic System Science/OAII/Arctic Ocean Section</Long_Name>
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        <Country>USA</Country>
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      <Short_Name>NSIDC_ARCSS</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center</Long_Name>
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  <Summary>This data set contains data collected during the joint Canadian-U.S. Arctic Ocean Section 1994 cruise in the central Arctic ocean. The purpose of the research was to provide the first description of porewater chemistry and diagenetic processes in near-surface sediments of the central ice-covered Arctic Ocean. Thirteen subcores from boxcores were collected. Analyses for a variety of solutes from the pore waters (oxygen, dissolved iron and manganese, phosphate, and titration alkalinity) were conducted on board.</Summary>
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  <DIF_Creation_Date>2004-07-27</DIF_Creation_Date>
  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2012-05-25</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
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