Geosphere; October 2005; v. 1; no. 2;
p. 60; DOI: 10.1130/1553-040X(2005)1[60:CI]2.0.CO;2
© 2005 Geological Society of America
Chronos Introduction
Cinzia Cervato, Guest Associate Editor
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Chronos (www.chronos.org) is a community facility funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and initiated in 2001 by a group of paleobiologists, stratigraphers, database developers, and information technology (IT) specialists as part of the geoinformatics initiative, a revolution that is migrating geoscience information to more readily retrievable electronic formats. Chronos addresses the geoinformatics needs of sedimentary geology and paleobiology, emphasizes global correlation and time-series analysis, and directly supports cutting-edge research on topics that include the evolution and diversity of life, climate change, geochemical cycles, paleoceanography, and many other aspects of the earth system.
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