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
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00048
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
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

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Language
English
Topic category
  • 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
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Distributor
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset

    Domain consistency

    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
    Date
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification
    Pass
    No
    Statement

    No special comments

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00048 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2022-03-22
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Point of contact
    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00048

     
     

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