World Paleomagnetic Database; ING, Rome, Italy

The Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica in Rome, Italy, has made available the ASCII version of the Global Paleomagnetic Database (GPMDB) via telnet. The following selection criteria may be used for selecting data : Age of Magnetization, Uncertainty on the Magnetization Age, Geographical coordinates of sample site, Geographical coordinates of virtual paleopoles, Fisher statistics, DP, DM, Rock Type, Laboratory treatment of sample, publication year, author, continent, formation, formation stratigraphic age, field tests, lab and analytical procedures, nation, and the minimum number of samples per site. Login procedure via telnet is as follows: Telnet 130.186.1.53 << to change in late 1994 to Telnet 141.108.7.8 Login: 39.366:: Username: ingeodb Password: please Output may be downloaded back to the user's local machine via FTP.