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Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 1: Toward an Open Science Geologic Time Scale — NSF Award to Boise State University (ID, $14

The Earth’s rock record preserves a substantial fraction of its history, attesting to our planet’s unique and complex systems from which tectonics, minerals, climate, and life have emerged. The Geological Time Scale (GTS) is the authoritative calendar of Earth’s history that has resulted from centuries of observation a

Award titleCollaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 1: Toward an Open Science Geologic Time Scale
Award ID2524549
AwardeeBoise State University
CityBOISE
StateID
Amount obligated$143,164
Principal investigatorMark Schmitz
ProgramGEO CI - GEO Cyberinfrastrctre
Start date01/01/2026
AbstractThe Earth’s rock record preserves a substantial fraction of its history, attesting to our planet’s unique and complex systems from which tectonics, minerals, climate, and life have emerged. The Geological Time Scale (GTS) is the authoritative calendar of Earth’s history that has resulted from centuries of observation and quantification of this rock record, and which serves as a foundation for research and innovation in Earth systems science. However, the process of GTS construction and revision
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