interpret stratigraphic classification

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Reporter: mdoering
Type: NewFeature
Summary: interpret stratigraphic classification
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-01-30 13:13:06.694
Updated: 2014-04-28 11:27:01.774
        
Description: For the geological terms to become properly searchable we need to interpret the stratigraphic classification similar to a names taxonomy. As we will get lots of varying input we need to do some normalization to support any kind of meaningful search.

Prominent classifications are:
 * Geological times on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale
 * GSA: http://www.geosociety.org/science/timescale/

Falk Glöckner from the MfN recommended the following sources:

In the links you provided it seems that there is only the geo-/chronostratigraphic classification. The geologic time intervals from the GSA is also accessible through a web- service:  http://paleobiodb.org/data1.1/

I’m not sure if there are sources for all the other stratigraphic classifications, but here is additional information:  http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-stratigraphicguide

Another useful source for terms might be http://fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=searchScale&continent=all
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