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Undergraduate Projects Improve Analysis of Geochronological Data
Feb 2018. Undergraduate students in the Computer Sciences Department at the College of Charleston are developing open-source software applications and infrastructure aimed at improving access to and analysis of geochronological and other earth-science data. The students are working… Read More
New EarthChem Library Video Tutorials
Apr 2017. Multiple EarthChem Library video tutorials have been released on the IEDA YouTube Channel. The videos are aimed at simplifying the data submission process and addressing frequently-asked questions. We plan to… Read More
Elsevier DataSearch Tool Augments Existing PetDB Search
Jan 2017. You can now use Elsevier DataSearch to search and browse PetDB data using the search box (pictured below) on the top right-hand corner of the PetDB homepage (www.… Read More

Weiss, Y. et al., (2016) Key new pieces of the HIMU puzzle from olivines and diamond inclusions
Conventionally the so-called “HIMU” (High U/Pb Mantle) ocean islands have been considered as representing subducted basaltic ocean crust that has cycled through the mantle to become part of mantle… Read More
Iwamori et al., (2015) Isotopic heterogeneity of oceanic, arc and continental basalts and its implications for mantle dynamics
By mining geochemical data of basalts from databases, such as PetDB, Iwamori and Nakamura created a large data set of isotopic values from Mid-ocean Ridge Basalts, Ocean Island Basalts and… Read More
Carbotte et al., (2015) Tectonic and magmatic segmentation of the Global Ocean Ridge System: a synthesis of observation.
Do ridge axis geometry and geochemical properties reflect source composition variations of the underlying magmatic plumbing system? Carbotte et al. (2015) explore this question by examining the… Read More