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

Authors/Creators

  • 1. University of Helsinki
  • 2. University of Liverpool
  • 3. Yale University
  • 4. University of California, San Diego

Description

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.

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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/).
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10.1038/sdata.2017.68 (DOI)