REVISED COMPOSITE DEPTH SCALE

The shipboard composite section was revised postcruise by Hall et al. (2001). An isotope cycle was missing from the upper section, resulting in the addition of 2.72 m to all data from Cores 181-1123A-5H, 181-1123B-5H, 181-1123C-5H, and deeper. An additional postcruise change adds 0.14 m to Cores 181-1123A-9H, 181-1123B-9H, 181-1123C-8H, and deeper. All meters composite depths (mcds) in Table T1 list shipboard-determined depths. All revised mcds cited here reflect the two postcruise offsets, rather than the original shipboard mcds. Some samples are not in the splice but are from overlapping sections in adjacent holes. Revised mcds for these samples include the offsets described above and also include small-scale (<10 cm) revisions obtained by matching reflectance records from adjacent holes to the splice.

Comparisons between the benthic 18O records of Site 1123 presented here and those of Site 849 in the eastern equatorial Pacific (Mix et al., 1995) indicate that the oxygen isotope splice at Site 1123 is in good agreement with the established record at Site 849 (Fig. F2). The Analyseries software (Paillard et al., 1996) was used to map Site 1123 18O to Site 849 18O. The resulting age model agrees with paleomagnetic reversal data for Site 1123.

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