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Goals
To ensure the interoperability of diverse fossil and sedimentary rock databases, facilitating broad multidisciplinary geoscience research
Research Examples
- Late Jurassic climates, vegetation and dinosaur distributions
- Rees, P.M., Noto, C.R., Parrish, J.M. & Parrish, J.T. (2004). Journal of Geology.
- Land-plant diversity and the end-Permian mass extinction
- Rees, P.M. (2002). Geology.
- Tracing the tropics across land and sea: Permian to present
- Ziegler, A.M., Eshel, G., Rees, P.M., Rothfus, T.A., Rowley, D.B. & Sunderlin, D. (2003). Lethaia.
- Patterns of land-plant diversity, climate and geography
- Rees, P.M. (2003). GSA abstracts, Seattle.
IT Details
- PGAP database design
- Niranjan Kesani, Dept. of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
- Developing database interoperability
- Jacinto Maquera, Dept. of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
- Revised geography and timescale codes
- Geography based on the CIA World Factbook. Timescale from the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) 2004 Geologic Time Scale.
Data and Tools
- PGAP Lithology Database
- Paleobiology Database
- Dinosauria Database
- PALEOMAP Project
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