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Data Collaboration:

EarthChem invites collaborations with academic individuals, projects and initiatives, national statutory bodies, and commercial entities that generate, archive and/or provide access to geochemical data. To read about the different levels of collaboration based on the level of accessibility to a collaborator's data at the EarthChem portal download our Policy.

Partners

PetDB - Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor
NAVDAT - North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database
GEOROC - GEOchemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents
USGS National Geochemical Survey Database
SedDB - Information System for Sediment Geochemistry

Topical Data Collections in Development with our Partners

Bushveld Igneous Complex Dataset
The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and EarthChem are partnering to compile data from the Bushveld Igneous Complex. The Bushveld is a 2 billion-year old intrusion possessing some of the world's riches ore deposits, including the platinum-rich Merensky Reef. Data entry will begin in February 2008.  Read more about BushveldDB

MexDB: The database of Mexican Igneous Rocks
EarthChem staff recently met with Luca Ferrari (UNAM) and Susanne Straub (LDEO) to move forward on the development of a database project focused on the TransMexican Volcanic Belt. The effort will increase the number of volcanic samples from Mexico currently housed under NAVDAT and will enhance quality of data and metadata in current holdings to include detailed subduction and volume parameters, as well as ages and analytical methods. Download the MexDB report and action plan (160KB).

Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Dataset
EarthChem, in partnership with Rutgers University and LDEO/Columbia University, has begun assembling geochemical and petrological data from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) as of June 2007. The complete CAMP dataset will provide researchers with unprecedented access to data for studies on the world's largest Large Igneous Province. The CAMP dataset will be applicable to a wide range of research topics from continental break-up and the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction to geochemical characteristics of the mantle prior to the onset of MORB volcanism. 

Affiliates

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Contributors

Contributed datasets are available through EarthChem's Geochemical Resource Library (coming soon).

Synergistic Efforts

EarthChem encourages synergistic efforts with projects, institutions, and organizations that are involved with the publication and management of geochemical data and the broader geoinformatics effort in order to advance data management in Geochemistry. Current complementary efforts include:

EarthRef- Earth Reference Data and Models
EarthTime - Calibrating Earth History Through Teamwork and Cooperation
GEON- Geoinformatics Network
GeoReM- Geoscience Reference Materials
Geoscience Australia
iGeoInfo- International Coalition for Geoinformatics
LEPR- Library of Experimental Phase Relations
MetPetDB- Database for Metamorphic Petrology
MGDS- Marine Geoscience Data System
NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center
PaleoStrat- Information System for Paleontology and Sedimentary Geology
Pangaea- Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data
SESAR- System for Earth Sample Registration
Tethys- Interdisciplinary GIS Database for Studying Continental Plate Collisions