Date (Creation)

2015-01-14

Citation identifier

https://antarcticdatacenter.mna.it/srv/api/records/

Purpose

The collection is sorted towards Italian and foreign researchers for petrological, geochemical, geochronological and geomagnetic studies.

Status

On going

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

NASA Thesaurus

• celestial bodies

• meteorites

• stony meteorites

• chondrites

• carbonaceous chondrites

• carbonaceous meteorites

GCMD - Science Keywords

• METEORITES

GCMD - Instruments

• Grabbers/Traps/Collectors

GCMD - Locations

• ANTARCTICA

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

• Victoria Land

• Frontier Mountain

GCMD - Providers

• IT/PNRA

• IT/MNA

Use limitation

Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Code

VI, XI and XV Italian Antarctic Expeditions

Association Type

dependency

Initiative Type

Campaign

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Denominator

1

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Begin date

1991-01-10

End date

1999-12-28 Now

Unique resource identifier

WGS84

Distribution format

• XLS ( 1 )

• KLM ( 1 )

OnLine resource

MetData ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

The database provides data on the meteorite samples collected during the Italian Antarctic expeditions and preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide.

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Samples are stored in polyethylene or teflon bags inside wooden cabinets at the MNA repository. Silica gel is used to reduce the humidity level. Samples were weighed, photographed and processed to make polished thin sections.

File identifier

53aeca8a-289c-425e-98ec-156d8063ccae XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2024-10-24T15:38:32

Metadata standard name

ISO 19139

Metadata standard version

1.0