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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
"This site is an interface to a crystal structure database that includes every structure published in the American Mineralogist, The Canadian Mineralogist, and the European Journal of Mineralogy. We are now importing data from Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. The database is maintained under the care of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Mineralogical Association of Canada, and financed by the National Science Foundation."

Crater Lake Data Clearinghouse - (dead link) Bathymetry Survey Completed!
"The primary goal of this clearinghouse is to facilitate the coordination of research, monitoring, and environmental management activities in Crater Lake, and to ensure the widest possible access to data and information resulting from such activities."
Includes a great fly-by movie of Crater Lake bathymetry.
- USGS

Common Ground Database
A Free Archive and Database of Rock Properties Measurements
- Geophysics Dept., Colorado School of Mines

Digital Tectonic Activity Map
"The Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM) is a new visualization tool for both researcher and educator alike to better understand tectonic activity of our planet for the past 1 million years. DTAM is a Geographical Information System (GIS) that displays a realistic synoptic view of present global tectonism by filling in the cartographic gap between conventional geological maps and plate reconstruction maps."
NASA

Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for Biogeochemical Dynamics
"A source for biogeochemical and ecological data useful for studying environmental processes. These data have been collected on the ground, from aircraft, or by satellite or have been generated by computer models. The extent of data ranges from site-specific to global, and durations range from days to years."
DOE - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

EarthRef.org

  • Online Databases
    • EarthRef Digital Archive - (dead link)
      "...contains any type of digital data object associated with the Earth Sciences. Data objects may be part of non-published Earth Sciences projects ranging from data tables to diagrams to reports to geological maps to videos."
    • Seamount Catalog - (dead link)
      "...contains bathymetric maps from seamounts surveyed with the Seabeam 2000 system. All maps are available for downloading in high and low JPG formats. Otherwise gridded data can be downloaded."
    • GERM Reservoirs Database - (dead link)
      "...contains summary data on the geochemistry of all reservoirs in the Earth. This relational database only includes peer-reviewed data."
    • Kd's Database - (dead link)
      "...contains partition coefficient data for all types of rocks and minerals and for every element. Both experimental and empirical data are included in this extensive compilation."
    • GEOROC
      "...Petrologic and chemical data for igneous rocks from oceanic islands, island arcs and large igneous provinces. The GEOROC database only includes peer-reviewed data. Now comprises about 800,000 single values."
    • PETDB
      "The PETDB petrologic and chemical database includes igneous and metamorphic rocks from mid-ocean ridges, back-arc basins, near-ridge seamounts and old oceanic crust. Contains only peer-reviewed data including a large amount of DSDP and ODP sample data.

Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database - (dead link)
"The database consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America. Most of the guidebooks cited are from the period 1940-1988...The guidebook database contains the information in the print publication The Union List of Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks of North America, sixth edition, compiled and edited by the Geoscience Information Society Guidebooks Committee, Richard Spohn, Chair, and published by the American Geological Institute in 1996."
From the Geoscience Information Society

GEOROC - Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents
"...is intended to become a global geochemical database containing published chemical and isotopic data as well as extensive 'metadata' for rocks, minerals and melt/fluid inclusions...covers igneous rocks from Island Arcs, Oceanic Islands and Large Igneous Provinces."
Compiled by the database team at the Max-Planck-Institut f¸r Chemie in Mainz, Germany.

Index to Marine Geological Samples
"...also known as the Curators' Database, is a cooperative effort between nineteen oceanographic institutions and government agencies that maintain marine sample repositories to provide information on the contents of their collections to help researchers locate marine sediment and rock material for further analysis."
World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder

LandView
The Federal Geographic Data Viewer
"LandView reflects the collaborative efforts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a "Federal Geographic Data Viewer" that provides the public ready access to published Federal spatial and related data."

Marine Geology & Geophysics
"...compiles and maintains extensive databases in both coastal and open ocean areas. Key data types include bathymetry and gridded relief, trackline geophysics (gravity, magnetics, seismic reflection), sediment thickness, data from ocean drilling and seafloor sediment and rock samples, digital coastlines, and data from the Great Lakes. In addition to operating the collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder, part of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) World Data Center system, NGDC also operates the International Hydrographic Organization Data Center for Digital Bathymetry (IHO DCDB) on behalf of the Member Nations of the International Hydrographic Organization."
National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder

Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data
 "The main objectives of the Spatial Data Delivery Project (SDDP) are to: 1) coordinate the generation of complete, seamless, digital databases of geologic, lithologic, geochemical, geophysical, and mineral deposit information in consistent, standard formats; 2) develop methods and tools for serving this data to all customers, both internal and external, over the Internet; 3) develop Internet-based methods and tools for analytical processing of Mineral Resource Program (MRP) data; and 4) maintain communications with the rest of the Division and the Bureau on activities which are related to the electronic delivery of spatial data."
USGS

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
"NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC operates the World Data Center-A, Meteorology which is collocated at NCDC." Includes Regional Climate Centers & State Climatologists

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
 "...is the national repository for geophysical data, providing a wide range of science data services and information."

Natural Resources Canada

  • Canadian National Earthquake Hazards Program
  • Earth Sciences Sector - (dead link)
    • Geological Survey of Canada - (dead link)
      • Terrain Sciences Division - (dead link)
        • GeoServ - (dead link)
          "...delivers interactive maps over the Internet. Developed by the Terrain Sciences Division of the Geological Survey of Canada, GeoServ provides access to key geoscience data in the form of dynamic maps and associated databases, which can be explored over the Web."
          • National Diatom Database - (dead link)
            "...will include two components, the first one will contain approximately 5,000 diatom samples with their description, precise geographic location and associated information, and the second one will consist of 1,500 entries giving information on the environmental and ecological tolerance of individual diatom species. Diatoms are powerful indicators of environmental conditions as they respond quickly to environmental changes...This key source of climate indicators will provide an invaluable long term time series to determining climate variations in the Canadian Arctic."

National Snow and Ice Data Center
 "...We distribute data and maintain information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores."

  • Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database
     "...contains freeze and breakup dates and other ice cover descriptive data for 748 lakes and rivers. Of the 429 water bodies that have records longer than 19 years, 287 are in North America and 141 are in Eurasia; 170 have records longer than 50 years; and 28 longer than 100 years. A few have data prior to 1845. These data, from water bodies distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, allow analysis of broad spatial patterns as well as long-term temporal patterns."

North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics (NADAG)
"...is a database and website that aims to promote use, education, communication, and a knowledge base of the practice of archaeological geophysics in North America."

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Data Archive
 "The data archive is hosted by the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder."

Terra (EOS AM-1)
"...is the flagship of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), a major international science program to monitor climate and environmental change. Terra is collecting a new global data set to enable research into the ways that Earth's lands, oceans, atmosphere, ice, radiant energy, and life function as a whole system. In February 2000, Terra reached final orbit and acquired its first images, some of which are now available to the public!"

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Databases see Geology Resources - USGS

World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics

World Data Center System
International Council of Scientific Unions 


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