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The ROCKUNIT table contains information on the sampled rockunit and has the following COLUMNS:

ROCKUNITNO, REFNO, ROCKNAME, PLACE, CONTINENT, TERRANE, RLAT, RLONG, ROCKTYPE, STRATA, STRATAGE, LATSPREAD, LOWAGE, HIGHAGE, METHOD, ISOTOPEDATA, STRUCTURE

 

ROCK UNIT TABLE POSITION, GEOLOGY, AGE, STRUCTURE
ROCKUNITNO LINK WITH PMAGRESULT TABLE
REFNO LINK WITH REFERENCE TABLE
ROCKNAME Rock name
PLACE Location of investigation including name of country
CONTINENT One of 12 present-day continents
TERRANE Terrane name where this has been mentioned by the author
RLAT, RLONG Latitude and longitude of the rockunit
ROCKTYPE One of four possible rock types
STRATA Stratigraphic information such as "Visean"
STRATAGE Stratigraphic age using common symbols as listed in TIMESCALE TABLE
LATSPREAD Latitudinal spread of rock unit
LOWAGE, HIGHAGE Numerical lower and upper age limits
METHOD Basis upon which LOWAGE and HIGHAGE values have been derived
ISOTOPEDATA Isotopic age information
STRUCTURE Comments on strikes and dips of bedding or the age of folding or metamorphism