Locality Attributes - Documentation

[Nicole-Ridgwell-NMMNHS]

We need to add documentation for the new locality attributes. We need to update here;

https://handbook.arctosdb.org/documentation/geology.html Maybe update title of this page to Locality Attributes (incl. Geology)

and here:

https://arctos.database.museum/info/ctDocumentation.cfm?table=ctlocality_attribute_type

I can work on compiling the definitions for the locality attribute code table.

[Jegelewicz]

@Nicole-Ridgwell-NMMNHS I'll work on the handbook page this afternoon. It would be great if you could put together the definitions!

[Nicole-Ridgwell-NMMNHS]

Here are the definitions I put together:

biostratigraphic zone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biozone

Eon/Eonothem: chronostratigraphic units in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart https://stratigraphy.org/chart

Era/Erathem: chronostratigraphic units in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart https://stratigraphy.org/chart

informal chronostratigraphy: published chronostratigraphic units that are not in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart, for example, regional chronostratigraphies

landholder: the legal landowner or government land administration agency

lithodemic suite: a unit of lithodemic stratigraphy (describes bodies of rock which do not conform to the law of superposition)

lithostratigraphic bed: a named lithostratigraphic bed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_(geology)

lithostratigraphic formation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_formation

lithostratigraphic group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(stratigraphy)

lithostratigraphic member:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphic_unit#Member

locality access: setting this attribute to private makes the locality invisible to anyone without access to your collection

Series/Epoch: chronostratigraphic units in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart https://stratigraphy.org/chart

site found: the date and the agent(s) who originally found and reported the locality to a collecting institution

site identifier: any identifiers assigned to a site or locality that are in addition to locality_name

Stage/Age: chronostratigraphic units in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart https://stratigraphy.org/chart

Substage/Subage: chronostratigraphic units in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart https://stratigraphy.org/chart

System/Period: cchronostratigraphic units in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart https://stratigraphy.org/chart

TRS aliquot: quarter sections units of the Public Land Survey System

TRS range: 6 mile east-west units of the Public Land Survey System

TRS section: 1 square mile units of the Public Land Survey System

TRS township: 6 mile north-south units of the Public Land Survey System

[Nicole-Ridgwell-NMMNHS]

And - I just realized that biostratigraphy and biochronology ended up lumped together.

[Jegelewicz]

Added those definitions to the code table and the documentation. Thanks!!!!

[Nicole-Ridgwell-NMMNHS]

https://github.com/ArctosDB/arctos/issues/2987#issuecomment-667401431

The basic unit of biochronology is the biostratigraphic zone, or biozone, a collection of fossils found together in a rock unit. The following biozone groups are available in Arctos:

Should be The basic unit of biochronology is the biochron, a collection of fossils found together in a rock unit. The following biochron groups are available in Arctos:

Chronostratigraphy is the branch of geologic stratigraphy in which strata . . .

Should be Chronostratigraphy is the branch of geologic stratigraphy in which units . . .

In the list of Chronostratigraphy units we should switch some around so they are consistantly Chronostrat/Geochron, so: Eonothem/Eon Erathem/Era System/Period Series/Epoch Stage/Age And for definitions of these, we can just link to wikipedia.

Lithostratigraphy is the branch of geologic stratigraphy in which stata . . .

Should be Lithostratigraphy is the branch of geologic stratigraphy in which units . . .

I think we can entirely remove petrology from the documentation, we don't have any petrology code tables at the moment.

[Jegelewicz]

In the list of Chronostratigraphy units we should switch some around so they are consistantly Chronostrat/Geochron, so: Eonothem/Eon Erathem/Era System/Period Series/Epoch Stage/Age

but the terms currently in the document reflect how terms are presented in the code table....

otherwise, I made the edits. Thanks!

[Nicole-Ridgwell-NMMNHS]

reflect how terms are presented in the code table

Ugh, I hadn't noticed that and I assume that is not an easy change. If so, then lets just leave it like it is for now.

[mkoo]

@Nicole-Ridgwell-NMMNHS is this documentation resolved? Please go ahead and close this issue if so!