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  • Subscribe to a new newsletter about geochemical data systems

    January 2012. We will be starting to provide regular updates about the geochemical data systems EarthChem, Geochron, PetDB, NAVDAT, SedDB, VentDB, and the Geochemical Resource Library. The newsletter will include valuable information about
     

    • new data added to the databases
    • new software features and services services
    • information about upcoming workshops and short courses.

     
    This will be part of a new...

  • New Data loaded - Dec 2011

    Current holdings for the Deep Lithosphere Dataset

    References: 179
    Samples: 5,229
    Stations: 820
    Chemical values: 215,601
    Mineral values: 151,888
    Rock values: 59,957

     

  • Pre-AGU Workshop: Using Geoinformatics Resources to Explore the Generation of Convergent Margin Magmas

    November 2011. IEDA team members are co-convening a Pre-AGU GeoPRISMS Mini-Workshop:

    Using Geoinformatics Resources to Explore the Generation of Convergent Margin Magmas

    Pre-AGU: Sunday, December 4, 2011, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Warfield Room, Grand Hyatt San Francisco (345 Stockton Street)

    Conveners: R. Stern (Univ Texas, Dallas), M. Feigenson (Rutgers Univ.), K. Lehnert and A. Goodwillie (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory),...

  • EarthChem now links to Elsevier

    Elsevier Articles on SciVerse ScienceDirect and datasets accessible at the EarthChem Portal are now bi-directionally connected!

    Elsevier and EarthChem are starting the collaboration with the following journals (other Elsevier titles will be added soon):

    • Chemical Geology
    • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
    • Lithos
    • The Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

     

    Read more here:

    • State of the Planet Blog:...
  • New data loaded - Sept 2011

    Current Deep Lithosphere Data Set holdings
    References: 173
    Locations: 809
    Samples: 5,030
    Total observed values: 200,619
    Observed values for rocks: 57,695
    Observed values for minerals: 140,811

     

     

  • Workshop on data reporting for Ion Microprobe geochronology

    September 2011: Organizers Doug Walker (University of Kansas) and Joe Wooden (USGS/Stanford) are holding a workshop on data reporting for Ion Microprobe geochronology. It will be held at the Green Earth Sciences Building at Stanford University, all day on Sept. 9, 2011.

  • New Deep Lithosphere Data

    June 2011: Deep Lithosphere Current Holdings

    View new data sets

    164 References
    781 Locations
    4,501 Samples
    189,056 Total observed values
    54,235 Observed values for rocks
    132,750 Observed values for minerals

     Search Deep Lithosphere

     

  • Geochron 1.0 Release

    June 2011: EarthChem is pleased to announce the release of Geochron, an application that helps with the onerous task of data management for geochronological and thermochronological studies. Geochron was developed in collaboration with the EARTHTIME effort and worked with expert groups from the Ar-Ar, U-Pb, (U-Th)/He, and CRN communities to establish reporting requirements and...

  • EarthChem KML for Google Earth

    June 2011: The EarthChem Google Earth KML file provides end-users with an intuitive interface to all EarthChem samples (including NAVDAT, PetDB, GEOROC, USGS, GANSEKI, SedDB, and MetPetDB). To view EarthChem samples in Google Earth, simply load the EarthChem.kml file and zoom to your desired location. There is currently a limit of 1000 samples per page view, but zooming in to a location will...

  • CZChemDB and EarthChem : Critical zone geochemical data.

    June 2011: EarthChem’s affiliates at PennState are presenting a paper at the Ninth International Symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface (GES9), June 2-7 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The article, published in Applied...