About the Rangecharts
We have assumed that many researchers will want to work with a
specific group or area, and that they may wish to build their own
relational databases designed to serve specific purposes. To facilitate
this we provide a large number of files that can be retrieved and used
either as spreadsheets or incorporated into larger database structures.
The data files are listed by hole. The digits and letters before the
underline in the file name designate the Hole. In the "cleaned" fossil
data on the DSDP CDROM the samples are designated by depth in meters
below the sea floor. The actual sample numbers (Leg, Site, Hole, Core,
Section, Depth in Section) are not given. The files labeled with hole
designation followed by an underline followed by "sd.ref" (e.g.
1_sd.ref (not available yet!)) can be used to reconstruct the sample number. They list the
samples cited in the reports for each fossil group, the subbotom depth
of each sample, and the name of the investigator who studied the sample.
The data on fossils are available as tab-delimited ASCII files that
can be directly imported into Excel or other spreadsheet programs. The
file names are coded as follows.
The digits and letters before the underline in the file name
designate the Hole.
