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| Titel |
PaleoGeo: a Web based GIS database for paleoenvironmental studies |
| VerfasserIn |
Wonsuh Song, Yasuhisa Kondo, Takashi Oguchi |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250096266
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-11764.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Paleoenvironmental studies cover various fields such as paleohydrology, geomorphology,
paleooceanology, paleobiology, paleoclimatology, and chronology. It is difficult for an
individual researcher to collect and compile enormous data regarding these fields. We have
been compiling portal data and presenting them using a web-based geographical
information system (Web-GIS) called PaleoGeo for the multidisciplinary project
“Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans”. The aim of the project is
to reconstruct the distribution of Neanderthals and modern humans in time and
space in relation to past climate change. We have been collecting information from
almost three thousand articles of 13 journals regarding paleoenvironmental research
(i.e., Boreas, Catena, Climatic Change, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms,
Geomorphology, Journal of Quaternary Science, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
and Palaeoecology, Quaternary International, Quaternary Research, Quaternary
Science Reviews, The Holocene, and The Journal of Geology). The topics of the
articles were classified into six themes (paleohydrology, earth surface processes and
materials, paleooceanology, paleobiology, palaeoclimatology, and chronology) and
19 subthemes (hydrology, flood, fluvial, glacier, fluvial/glacier, sedimentology,
soil, slope process, periglacial, peat land, eolian, sea-level, biology, vegetation,
zoology, vegetation/zoology, archaeology, climate, atmosphere, and chronology). The
collected data consist of the journal name, information about each paper (authors,
title, volume, year, and page numbers), site location (country name, longitude, and
latitude), theme, subtheme, keywords, DOI (Digital Object Identifier), and period (era).
Location data are indispensable for paleoenvironmental studies. The PaleoGeo shows
information with a map, which is an advantage of this database system. However,
the number of the paleoenvironmental studies is growing rapidly and we have to
effectively cover them as many as possible. We plan to simplify the input data (latitude,
longitude, title and DOI only) to include more publications. So far information
about >7500 sites has been collected and the number is increasing. The collected
data are accessible via the internet (http://neangis.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/paleogeo/). |
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