Trapped Gas Composition and Chronology of the Vostok Ice Core  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0311
Summary
This data set includes a time scale for the Vostok ice core, retrieved from Vostok Station on the East Antarctic Plateau. This chronology is derived by orbitally tuning to molecular oxygen to nitrogen (O2/N2) ratios in occluded air for depths deeper than 1550 m (greater than 112,000 years old), and by gas correlation to the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) chronology for the ice core section that is shallower than 1422 m (less than 102,000 years old). Because of poor gas preservation in air bubbles in shallower depths, investigators could only constrain the Vostok chronology for the section deeper than 1550 m by O2/N2. Thus for the shallower section of the core, they synchronized the Vostok delta oxygen-18 (δ18O) and methane (CH4) measurements to those of the GISP2 to obtain the chronology (see Bender, et al. 2006). Note, CH4 data are not included in this data set.
Investigators analyzed the O2/N2 and the δ18O record ratios for approximately the past 115,000 to 400,000 years in the Vostok ice core. They combined new measurements for O2/N2 and δ18O with data from Bender (2002) and Petit, et al. (1999), respectively.
Data are in Microsoft Excel format and are available via FTP.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: -72.4667°
S: -72.4667°
E: -106.8°
W: -106.8°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Michael Bender
Dataset Title: Trapped Gas Composition and Chronology of the Vostok Ice Core
Dataset Release Date: 2007-07-10
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0311.html
Dataset DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5P26W12
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2003-09-01
Stop Date: 2006-06-30
Paleo Temporal Coverage
Paleo Start Date: 400,000 ypb
Paleo Stop Date: 115,000 ybp
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT ANTARCTICA VOSTOK
Science Keywords
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Chemistry Nitrogen Compounds
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Chemistry Oxygen Compounds
- Cryosphere Snow/Ice Ice Depth/Thickness
- Paleoclimate Ice Core Records Ice Core Air Bubbles Gas Age
- Paleoclimate Ice Core Records Ice Core Air Bubbles Ice Age
- Paleoclimate Ocean/Lake Records Oxygen Isotopes
- Terrestrial Hydrosphere Snow/Ice Ice Depth/Thickness
Ancillary Keywords
- Antarctica
- Gas Age
- Ice Age
- Ice Core
- Ice Core Data
- Oxygen Isotopes
- Paleoclimate
- Vostok
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
Instrument
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
NSIDC_AGDC
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC Antarctic Glaciological Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/agdc/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC AGDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 281 KB
Distribution Format: Microsoft Excel
Personnel
Michael Bender
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 609 258-2936
Email: bender@princeton.edu
Contact Address:
- Princeton University
- Department of Geosciences
- M48 Guyot Hall
City: Princeton
Province or State: NJ
Postal Code: 08544
Country: USA
Makoto Suwa
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 609 258-2756
Email: msuwa@princeton.edu
Contact Address:
- Princeton University
- Department of Geosciences
- Guyot Hall
City: Princeton
Province or State: NJ
Postal Code: 08544
Country: USA
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Related URL
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Concentration and Isotopic Composition of O2 and N2 in Trapped Gases of the Vostok Ice Core
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Vostok Ice Core Chemistry, Timescale, Isotope, and Temperature Data
Reference
Bender, M. L. 2002. Orbital tuning chronology for the Vostok climate record supported by trapped gas composition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 204(1), 275-289.
Petit, J. J., J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, N. I. Barkov, J.-M. Barnola, I. Basile, M. Bender, et al. 1999. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 399, 429-436.
Suwa, M. 2007. Chronologies for ice cores constrained by their gas records and their implications for climate history for the past 400,000 years. PhD thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Suwa, M., and M. Bender. In press. Chronology of the Vostok ice core constrained by O2/N2 ratios of occluded air, and its implication for the Vostok climate records. Quaternary Science Reviews.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2007-07-10
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-03-18
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