Data from: Advancing Precambrian palaeomagnetism with the PALEOMAGIA and PINT(QPI) databases

Veikkolainen, Toni H., University of Helsinki

Biggin, Andrew J., University of Liverpool

Pesonen, Lauri J., University of Helsinki

Evans, David A., Yale University

Jarboe, Nicholas A., University of California, San Diego

Published May 02, 2018 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.63g17

Cite this dataset

Veikkolainen, Toni H. et al. (2018). Data from: Advancing Precambrian palaeomagnetism with the PALEOMAGIA and PINT(QPI) databases [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.63g17

Abstract

State-of-the-art measurements of the direction and intensity of Earth’s ancient magnetic field have made important contributions to our understanding of the geology and palaeogeography of Precambrian Earth. The PALEOMAGIA and PINT(QPI) databases provide thorough public collections of important palaeomagnetic data of this kind. They comprise more than 4,100 observations in total and have been essential in supporting our international collaborative efforts to understand Earth's magnetic history on a timescale far longer than that of the present Phanerozoic Eon. Here, we provide an overview of the technical structure and applications of both databases, paying particular attention to recent improvements and discoveries.

Usage notes

PALEOMAGIA and PINT(QPI) databases

This package contains static copies (as of July 15, 2016) of PALEOMAGIA (http://www.helsinki.fi/paleomagia/) and PINT(QPI) (http://earth.liv.ac.uk/pint/) palaeomagnetic databases as Open Document spreadsheet files (ods) as follows: - PALEOMAGIA spreadsheet (PALEOMAGIA_web.ods) contains sheets corresponding to each actual database table (agerefs, countries, data, pmagrefs, terranes). - PINT(QPI) spreadsheet (PINT_Qpi_web.ods) contains sheets corresponding to each actual database table (Refs, PINTdata, PIMethods and Information). For additional information, and to access the most recent versions of databases, users are advised to access the PALEOMAGIA and PINT(QPI) websites (http://www.helsinki.fi/paleomagia/, http://earth.liv.ac.uk/pint/).

paleomag_databases.zip

Location

areas of Precambrian geology