GEOMAGIA50.v3: 2. A new paleomagnetic database for lake and marine sediments

Summary, in English

Background: GEOMAGIA50.v3 for sediments is a comprehensive online database providing access to published paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, and chronological data obtained from lake and marine sediments deposited over the past 50 ka. Its objective is to catalogue data that will improve our understanding of changes in the geomagnetic field, physical environments, and climate. Findings: GEOMAGIA50.v3 for sediments builds upon the structure of the pre-existing GEOMAGIA50 database for magnetic data from archeological and volcanic materials. A strong emphasis has been placed on the storage of geochronological data, and it is the first magnetic archive that includes comprehensive radiocarbon age data from sediments. The database will be updated as new sediment data become available. Conclusions: The web-based interface for the sediment database is located at http://geomagia.gfz-potsdam.de/geomagiav3/SDquery.php. This paper is a companion to Brown et al. (Earth Planets Space doi:10.1186/s40623-015-0232-0, 2015) and describes the data types, structure, and functionality of the sediment database.

• Author: Maxwell C. Brown; Fabio Donadini; Andreas Nilsson; Sanja Panovska; Ute Frank; Kimmo Korhonen; Maximilian Schuberth; Monika Korte; Catherine G. Constable
• Department/s: Quaternary Sciences
• Publishing year: 2015-12-29
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Earth, Planets and Space
• Volume: 67
• Issue: 1
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40623-015-0233-z
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Terra Scientific Publishing Company
• Topic: Geophysics; Geology
• Keywords: Database; Environmental magnetism; GEOMAGIA50; Geomagnetism; Paleomagnetism; Rock magnetism; Sediment magnetism
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1343-8832