Status Report on the Creation of a Preliminary Data Model and Dictionary for a New Petrologic Database [electronic resource].
Published
Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2008. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
A preliminary database has been developed that will allow mineralogy and bulk-rock geochemical information to be managed under configuration control and facilitate electronic querying. The database is currently developed in Microsoft Access as a collection of tables, views, and entry forms. Each field and table has been described in a data dictionary.