BGS Hosted Metadata
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
- Date (Creation)
- 2004-11-25
- Date (Revision)
- 2004-11-25
- Date (Publication)
- 2004-11-25
- Date (released)
- 2004-11-25
- Edition
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1
- Unique resource identifier
- 84cb6624-cade-4558-a2b0-0c44610c4554
- Codespace
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uuid
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00048
- Codespace
- Other citation details
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Please cite this item as: None
- Credit
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey Tate, Alexander
Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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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
- Theme
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Geology
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fossils
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geochemistry
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marine cores
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palaeontology
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rocks
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- Place
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Antarctica
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Falkland Islands
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Please contact the technical investigator/contact for use constraints.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 1943-01-01
- End date
- 1943-01-01
- Supplemental Information
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
- Title
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
- Version
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6.18.3
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
- Units of distribution
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bytes
- Transfer size
- 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- File identifier
- 84cb6624-cade-4558-a2b0-0c44610c4554 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2004-11-25
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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