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.
Simple
- 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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- 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
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- Geology
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- fossils
- geochemistry
- marine cores
- palaeontology
- rocks
- Use limitation
- Please contact the technical investigator/contact for use constraints.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the technical investigator/contact for use constraints.
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 1943-01-01
- End date
- unknown
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- 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
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