Towards data interchangeability in paleomagnetism
- 1LIAG, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, S5, Hannover, Germany (christian.zeeden@leibniz-liag.de)
- 2Palaeomagnetism Research Group, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
- 3Géosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- 4BayCEER & Chair of Geomorphology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- 5Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- 6Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
- 7Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Geologia, Università “G. d'Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
- 8CIMaN-ALP – Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism, Peveragno, Italy
- 9Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- 10Sedimentary Petrology, Liege University, Liège, Belgium
- 11O.D. Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
Paleomagnetic data are used in different data formats, adapted to data output of a variety of devices and specific analysis software. This includes widely used openly available software, e.g. PMag.py/MagIC, AGICO/.jr6 & .ged, and PuffinPlot/.ppl. Besides these, individual software and data formats have been established by individual laboratories.
Here we compare different data formats, identify similarities and create a common and interchangeable data basis. We introduce the idea of a paleomagnetic object (pmob), a simple data table that can include any and all data that would be relevant to the user. We propose a basic nomenclature of abbreviations for the most common paleomagnetic data to merge different data formats. For this purpose, we introduce a set of automatization routines for paleomagnetic data conversion. Our routines bring several data formats into a common data format (pmob), and also allow reversion into selected formats. We propose creating similar routines for all existing paleomagnetic data formats; our suite of computation tools will provide the basis to facilitate the inclusion of further data formats. Furthermore, automatized data processing allows quality assessment of data.
How to cite: Zeeden, C., Laag, C., Camps, P., Guyodo, Y., Hambach, U., Just, J., Lurcock, P., Rolf, C., Satolli, S., Scheidt, S., and Wouters, S.: Towards data interchangeability in paleomagnetism, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-10627, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10627, 2020.
