New edition of the Global Paleomagnetic Database

Abstract

A new version of the Global Paleomagnetic Database—GPMDB V 4.6—is available now at the Tectonics Special Research Centre of the University of Western Australia Web site (http://www.tsrc.uwa.edu.au/). This version contains 9259 paleomagnetic poles from 7513 rock units published in 3673 articles up to December 2004 inclusive. This version has also been completely updated using the latest International Stratigraphic Chart published by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) on its Web site (www.stratigraphy.org). This new timescale is significantly different from the timescale which has been used in the database for the past decade. All entries in the database based on biostratigraphic ages have had their absolute minimum and maximum age limits revised according to this new scale. Therefore, users of the database who have compiled their own files based on the old database should be aware that the assigned absolute ages have now changed.

Palaeoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic growth and evolution of the eastern Congo Craton: Its role in the Rodinia puzzle

“…A search in the latest version of the Global Palaeomagnetic Database (Pisarevsky, 2005) produced only few reliable data after filtering out poles with large age uncertainty and low reliability. Poles with Renne et al (1990) Q is the quality factor after Van der Voo (1990) and ranges from zero to seven, with the later representing the highest-quality data.…”

Paleomagnetic investigation of the Early Permian Panjal Traps of NW India; regional tectonic implications

“…Klootwijk, 383 1975, Klootwijk et al, 1983). However, as none are included within the IAGA Global 384Paleomagnetic Database(Pisarevsky, 2005) this suggests limited reliability for these results.…”

Paleo-tectonic positions of Northeast Africa during Cretaceous–Paleocene: Paleomagnetic study on East Gilf Kebir Plateau basalts [59 Ma], Southwestern Desert, Egypt

“…The rotation parameters were all interpolated to 59 Ma (Table 2), from the original published parameters. Reliable paleomagnetic poles with ages (59 ± 5 Ma) were selected from the global databases, comprehensive reviews and recent global reconstructions (McElhinny and Lock, 1996;Pisarevsky, 2005;Torsvik, , 2012Van der Voo, 1993). The EGKP basalt paleomagnetic pole is, further, compared with its coeval poles (60 Ma) of the recent Global Apparent Polar Wander Paths [APWPs] such as Torsvik et al (2008Torsvik et al ( , 2012 (Table 4).…”