ITR/AP (EAR) COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Web Tools for Global Time Scale Development: An Example from the Pennsylvanian-Cisuralian (Early Permian)

itr / ap\(EAR) Collaborative Research: Web tools for global time scale development: an example from the Pennsylvanian-Cisuralian\(Early Permian\)摘要“面向全球时间尺度发展的网络工具：以宾夕法尼亚-西乌拉纪（早二叠世）为例”是一个研究地质时间尺度发展的信息技术项目。地质年标是地球科学研究的基本工具。全球事件的相互关系和地球历史过程速率的计算都直接依赖于地质时间尺度的准确性和精确性。这些过程包括，例如，灭绝的速度和原因，气候变化，板块运动和造山。尽管它起着至关重要的作用，但部分时间尺度尚未正式定义。这个项目的重点是双重的：1)开发一种方法，作为国际上讨论和商定制定完整时间尺度的模式，2)使用目前未定义的时间尺度的特定部分，作为如何实现这一目标的例子。具体来说，pi将开发基于网络的工具，以促进建立宾夕法尼亚和早二叠纪阶段边界定义的国际辩论，并将作为这些定义所使用的数据的永久资源。该工具将允许所有感兴趣的工作者轻松地从全球范围的系统中输入和提取各种各样的数据。时间尺度是基于地层记录中保存的化石的演替，因此，这些数据将包含丰富的古生物学和生物地层学信息。通过互联网与这些数据和其他研究人员进行交互的能力将有助于解决有关特定物种术语的问题，从而消除达成国际协议的基本障碍。该系统还必须容纳有关地层学的信息——沉积岩演替的结构——这是化石记录的宿主。它还必须包括所谓的基于放射性测年法的岩石绝对年龄。各种地球化学、古地磁和其他数据必须包括在内，以形成一个真正的系统方法来建立时间尺度。通过将这些数据和其他数据类型结合到一个系统中，pi希望能够首次开发出一种可靠的方法来开发地质时间尺度。

ITR/AP\(EAR) Collaborative Research: Web tools for global time scale development: an example from the Pennsylvanian-Cisuralian\(Early Permian\)(EAR-0218799)Vladimir Davydov, C. J. Northrup, Tamra SchiappaBoise State UniversityABSTRACT"Web Tools for Global Time Scale Development: an Example from the Pennsylvanian-Cisuralian (Early Permian)" is an information technology project that deals with the development of the geologic time scale. The geologic time scale is a fundamental tool of Earth Science research. The correlation of global events and the calculation of rates of processes during Earth's history all depend directly on the accuracy and precision of the geologic time scale. These processes include, for example, the rates and causes of extinction, climate change, plate motions, and mountain building. Despite its critical role, portions of the time scale have not been formally defined. The focus of this project will be twofold: 1) to develop a method that will serve as a model for international discussion and agreement on the development of a complete time scale, and 2) to use a particular part of the time scale that is presently undefined, as an example of how to achieve this goal. Specifically, PIs will develop Web-based tools that will facilitate the international debate for establishment of the Pennsylvanian and Early Permian stage boundary definitions, and that will serve as a permanent resource for the data utilized for these definitions. This tool will allow all interested workers to easily enter and extract a wide variety of data from a system that is global in extent. The time scale is based on the succession of fossils that are preserved in the stratigraphic record, and therefore, these data will include a wealth of information on paleontology and biostratigraphy. The ability to interact with these data and other researchers over the Internet will help resolve issues about the terminology for specific species, and hence remove fundamental road blocks to international agreement. The system must also accommodate information about the stratigraphy - the architecture of the succession of sedimentary rocks - that are the hosts for the fossil record. It must also include so-called absolute ages of rocks based on radiometric dating. Various geochemical, paleomagnetic and other data must be included to form a true systems approach to building the time scale. By combining these and other data types into a single system, PIs hope to be able to, for the first time, develop a reliable approach to the development of the geologic time scale.