ORDINARY CHONDRITE - L

This dataset includes all the ordinary chondrites L group collected during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions since 1991 in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.

Date (Creation): 2015-01-14

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

pointOfContact

Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide - Sonia Sandroni

principalInvestigator

University of Siena - Marcello Mellini

principalInvestigator

University of Pisa - Luigi Folco

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

custodian

Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide - Sonia Sandroni

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

NASA Thesaurus

meteorites
stony meteorites
celestial bodies
chondrites

GCMD - Science Keywords

METEORITES

GCMD - Instruments

Grabbers/Traps/Collectors

GCMD - Locations

ANTARCTICA

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

Mount Fleming
Mackay Glacier
Victoria Land
Miller Butte
Frontier Mountain
Meteorite Hills
Elephant Moraine
Johannessen Nunataks
Allan Hills
Reckling Moraine
Mount Walton
David Glacier

GCMD - Providers

IT/PNRA
IT/MNA

PNRA project

AntMet PNRA16_00029

Use limitation: Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Unique resource identifier: VI, IX, XI, XIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XXV, XXVI, XXVIII, XXX and XXXIII Italian Antarctic expeditions

Association Type: dependency

Initiative Type: Campaign

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Denominator: 1

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 1991-01-10

End date: 2018-01-21 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 )

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

OnLine resource: Antarctic meteorites ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource

Project: MetAnt ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Antarctic Meteorites

OnLine resource

Project: AntMet ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Antarctic Meteorites

OnLine resource

Project: AntMet ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Antarctic Meteorites

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.