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MARS: Marine Samples Database

Project description

Marine geoscience is increasingly relying on easy internet access to quantitative information.

Geoscience Australia has created an on-line relational national MARine Samples (MARS) database that contains data collected for Australia';s seabed.

The maintenance and population of MARS addresses the need for a comprehensive national inventory of seabed properties.

Data reported in MARS include: grain size, mud, sand, gravel and carbonate contents, mineralogy, age determinations, geochemical properties, and bulk density, p-wave velocity, porosity, and magnetic susceptibility for cores. Images and graphics are also presented where available.

MARS currently holds >40,000 sample and sub-sample records, and approximately 200,000 records describing the characteristics of the samples. New data are continuously being added.

Front page of Geoscience Australia's on-line relational national marine samples database
Front page of Geoscience Australia's on-line relational national marine samples database (MARS).

Contact:

marine@ga.gov.au

Updated: 06 01 2010