The web service of the dataset comprises the locations of outcrops with respective information on the lithology, stratigraphy, rock age and tectonic data collected during the CASE expeditions. The data attributes include stereographic projections and sketches of tectonic structures derived from the outcrop data. At the end of the 1980s, BGR initiated the research program Circum-Arctic Structural Events (CASE) to reconstruct the plate tectonic processes during the evolution of the Arctic Ocean using terrestrial data from the surrounding continental margins. One of the scientific questions of the CASE programme is as simple as it is complex: How did the Arctic Ocean, this large basin between the Eurasian and North American continental plates, develop? There are still no conclusive answers to this question in terms of plate tectonics. In contrast to the marine expeditions of geophysicists in the Arctic Ocean, geologists on land along the various coastal areas of the Arctic Ocean can directly touch, examine and map rocks, structures, folds and fault zones and determine the respective ages of the movements. This makes it possible to directly compare rock units and deformation zones on different continental plates and thus also to reconstruct when these plates collided, how long they remained next to each other and when and how they separated again. Since the inception of BGR’s Arctic research, the primary focus and research areas have been along the continental margins between Spitsbergen and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago via Greenland, to the Yukon North Slope on the border with Alaska. On the opposite side of the Arctic Ocean, there have been expeditions to Yakutia, the mainland areas near the Laptev Sea, the New Siberian Islands and to the Polar Ural with Russian partners. An important method for the interpretation of the geological evolution of the Arctic is the examination of tectonic structures (faults, folds, cleavage etc.), the determination of the kinematics and the age of the tectonic movements.
The dataset comprises the locations of outcrops with respective information on the lithology, stratigraphy, rock age and tectonic data collected during the CASE expeditions. The data attributes include stereographic projections and sketches of tectonic structures derived from the outcrop data. At the end of the 1980s, BGR initiated the research program Circum-Arctic Structural Events (CASE) to reconstruct the plate tectonic processes during the evolution of the Arctic Ocean using terrestrial data from the surrounding continental margins. One of the scientific questions of the CASE programme is as simple as it is complex: How did the Arctic Ocean, this large basin between the Eurasian and North American continental plates, develop? There are still no conclusive answers to this question in terms of plate tectonics. In contrast to the marine expeditions of geophysicists in the Arctic Ocean, geologists on land along the various coastal areas of the Arctic Ocean can directly touch, examine and map rocks, structures, folds and fault zones and determine the respective ages of the movements. This makes it possible to directly compare rock units and deformation zones on different continental plates and thus also to reconstruct when these plates collided, how long they remained next to each other and when and how they separated again. Since the inception of BGR’s Arctic research, the primary focus and research areas have been along the continental margins between Spitsbergen and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago via Greenland, to the Yukon North Slope on the border with Alaska. On the opposite side of the Arctic Ocean, there have been expeditions to Yakutia, the mainland areas near the Laptev Sea, the New Siberian Islands and to the Polar Ural with Russian partners. An important method for the interpretation of the geological evolution of the Arctic is the examination of tectonic structures (faults, folds, cleavage etc.), the determination of the kinematics and the age of the tectonic movements.
The data-set contains nine apatite fission-track data from samples collected at strategic locations to constrain the age of deformation along an ideal transect crossing the main Apennine watershed (from the north-eastern margin of the Casentino Basin to the Romagna Apennines.
Apatite grains for fission-track analysis were separated from ~5 kg bulk samples. Four of them were collected from the Falterona Sandstones (Chattian-Aquitanian) and five in the Marnoso- Arenacea For-mation (Burdigalian-Tortonian). Apatite grains were separated using standard heavy liquids and a mag-netic technique.
Compilation of palaeomagnetic data from sediments and volcanic rocks from 68 sites spanning 30,000 to 50,000 years ago used to create the temporally continuous global spherical harmonic geomagnetic field model LSMOD.1. This is in supplement to the paper "Earth's magnetic field is (probably not reversing" (Brown et al. 2018)A description of how the data were treated is given in SI Appendix of the associated publication. A full list of complementary data sources (references) is given is provided with the data.-----------------For the volcanics there is one filevolc.txtThe headers are:Age[ka] - age in thousands of years before present (0 = 1950 AD).Error[ka] - uncertainty on the age.Lat[Deg] - Latitude of site in degrees.Lon[Deg] - Longitude of site in degrees.Dec[Deg] - Declination in degrees.Inc[Deg] - Inclination in degrees.Alpha95[Deg] - 95% circular confidence limit on the directional data.F[microT] - intensity in micro Tesla.F_Error[microT] - uncertainy on the intensity in micro Tesla.-9999 - no data-----------------For the sediments there are two types of files, those that end *.txt and those that end *int.txt.*.txt - directional data with the headers:Age[ka] - age in thousands of years before present (0 = 1950 AD).Lat[Deg] - Latitude of site in degrees.Lon[Deg] - Longitude of site in degrees.Dec[Deg] - Declination in degrees.Inc[Deg] - Inclination in degrees.-9999 - no data*int.txt - scaled intensity data using PADM2M (as described in Section S1.3 of SI Appendix)Age[ka] - age in thousands of years before present (0 = 1950 AD).Lat[Deg] - Latitude of site in degrees.Lon[Deg] - Longitude of site in degrees.F[microT] - Scaled intensity in micro Tesla.6 of the sediment data sets are individual records (BLS, CHI, MIN, PYR, SIO, S01).6 of the sediment data sets are stacks of records (BBS, NAS, NPS, OBS, SBS, SAS).All details of the records are given in Table S1 and Table S2 of the SI Appendix of the associated publication.