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BAS geological data - overview

The British Antarctic Survey holds one of the most extensive collections of Antarctic rocks and fossils anywhere in the world. These are predominately from the Antarctic Peninsula region and Scotia Arc, although there is also important material from areas such as the Ellsworth Mountains, Marie Byrd Land and the Transantarctic Mountains.

Some of these specimens go back to the very earliest days of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in the 1940s, and include collections made by the pioneer geologists at bases such as Hope Bay and Deception Island. Right from the outset, every specimen collected in Antarctica has been numbered and catalogued, and a vast reference archive is now available for use by the geoscience community.

We currently have information relating to 150,000 field samples often with associated analysis data such as geochemistry. Additionally we hold a variety of data for nearly 500 marine cores. Metadata and data are stored digitally within a number of Oracle 10g database tables and for some datasets such as the type and figured fossil collection there is external access through a web interface. However, a significant number of datasets exist only in analog form and are held within the BAS archives organised by individual geologist.

This abstract acts as an overview of the BAS geological data - both terrestrial and marine.

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00048
Date (Publication)
2022-03-22
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00048
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  - British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Geomorphology > Tectonic Landforms/Processes
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Land Records > Macrofossils
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Land Records > Microfossils
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Ocean/Lake Records > Macrofossils
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Paleoclimate > Ocean/Lake Records > Microfossils
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Geochemistry > Chemical Weathering
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Rocks/Minerals > Age Determinations
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Rocks/Minerals > Igneous Rocks
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Rocks/Minerals > Metamorphic Rocks
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Rocks/Minerals > Sedimentary Rocks
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Rocks/Minerals > Sediments
INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BAS Free-text keywords
  • fossils
  • geochemistry
  • marine cores
  • palaeontology
  • rocks
Use limitation
Please contact the technical investigator/contact for use constraints.
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
1943-01-01
End date
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Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

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Explanation
See the referenced specification
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No
Statement
No special comments
File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00048 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2022-03-22
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00048
 
 

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