CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE - CV

This dataset includes all the carbonaceous chondrites CV group collected during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions since 1997 in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.

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

Point of contact

Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide - Sonia Sandroni

Principal investigator

University of Siena - Marcello Mellini

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Custodian

Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide - Sonia Sandroni

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: XIII Italian Antarctic Expedition

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Campaign

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 1997-12-15

End date: 1997-12-15 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.

OnLine resource: Concentration of meteorites: identification, collection, study ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass: Yes

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.