HR: 1340h
AN: GP33A-0088    [Abstracts]
TI: The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) Online Database: Uploading, Searching and Visualizing Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Data
AU: * Koppers, A
EM: akoppers@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Tauxe, L
EM: ltauxe@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Constable, C
EM: cconstable@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Pisarevsky, S
EM: spisarevsky@tsrc.uwa.edu.au
AF: Tectonics Special Research Centre, The University of Western Australia School of Earth and Geographical Sciences 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009 Australia
AU: Jackson, M
EM: irm@umn.edu
AF: Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota 291 Shepherd Laboratories 100 Union Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0128 United States
AU: Solheid, P
EM: peat@umn.edu
AF: Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota 291 Shepherd Laboratories 100 Union Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0128 United States
AU: Banerjee, S
EM: banerjee@umn.edu
AF: Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota 291 Shepherd Laboratories 100 Union Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0128 United States
AU: Johnson, C
EM: cljohnson@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Genevey, A
EM: agnes.genevey@culture.gouv.fr
AF: Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Mus‚es de France, Palais du Louvre - Porte des Lions 14 quai Fran‡ois Mitterrand, Paris, 75001 France
AU: Delaney, R
EM: delaney.ryan@gmail.com
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Baker, P
EM: pbaker@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Sbarbori, E
EM: esbarbor@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AB: The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) operates an online relational database including both rock and paleomagnetic data. The goal of MagIC is to store all measurements and their derived properties for studies of paleomagnetic directions (inclination, declination) and their intensities, and for rock magnetic experiments (hysteresis, remanence, susceptibility, anisotropy). MagIC is hosted under EarthRef.org at http://earthref.org/MAGIC/ and has two search nodes, one for paleomagnetism and one for rock magnetism. These nodes provide basic search capabilities based on location, reference, methods applied, material type and geological age, while allowing the user to drill down from sites all the way to the measurements. At each stage, the data can be saved and, if the available data supports it, the data can be visualized by plotting equal area plots, VGP location maps or typical Zijderveld, hysteresis, FORC, and various magnetization and remanence diagrams. All plots are made in SVG (scalable vector graphics) and thus can be saved and easily read into the user's favorite graphics programs without loss of resolution. User contributions to the MagIC database are critical to achieve a useful research tool. We have developed a standard data and metadata template (version 1.6) that can be used to format and upload all data at the time of publication in Earth Science journals. Software tools are provided to facilitate easy population of these templates within Microsoft Excel. These tools allow for the import/export of text files and they provide advanced functionality to manage/edit the data, and to perform various internal checks to high grade the data and to make them ready for uploading. The uploading is all done online by using the MagIC Contribution Wizard at http://earthref.org/MAGIC/upload.htm that takes only a few minutes to process a contribution of approximately 5,000 data records. After uploading these standardized MagIC template files will be stored in the digital archives of EarthRef.org from where they can be downloaded at all times. Finally, the contents of these template files will be automatically parsed into the online relational database, making the data available for online searches in the paleomagnetic and rock magnetic search nodes. The MagIC database contains all data transferred from the IAGA paleomagnetic poles database (GPMDB), the lava flow paleosecular variation database (PSVRL), lake sediment database (SECVR) and the PINT database. In addition to that a substantial number of data compiled under the Time Averaged Field Investigations project is now included plus a significant fraction of the data collected at SIO and the IRM. Ongoing additions of legacy data include ~40 papers from studies on the Hawaiian Islands, data compilations from archeomagnetic studies and updates to the lake sediment dataset.
UR: http://earthref.org/MAGIC
DE: 1503 Archeomagnetism
DE: 1521 Paleointensity
DE: 1525 Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics: regional, global
DE: 1527 Paleomagnetism applied to geologic processes
DE: 1540 Rock and mineral magnetism
SC: Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism [GP]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005