Background and Information
The aim of the PINT database is to catalogue all absolute palaeointensity data with ages > 50 ka which have been published in the peer-reviewed literature. The data is provided at the cooling unit level or, in the case of large intrusions, at the sampling site level. In some cases, the data provided in the publication only allows averages of multiple cooling units to be given. In such cases, this should be a Field.
The 2003 version of the IAGA absolute palaeointensity database was described in detail by Perrin & Schnepp (2004; PEPI 147, 255-267). It was updated through late 2006 by Lisa Tauxe (Tauxe, L. and Yamazaki, T, 2007. Paleointensities, in: Treatise on Geophysics, Schubert, G. (ed.), vol. 5, Geomagnetism, 509-564, Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.) and since then by Andy Biggin (with help from various people - see updates). A new website for PINT with a queryable interface was created in July, 2009. A big thank you to Alan McCormack for writing the code for the original interface and assisting with its web-hosting. The data, formerly included in PINT 2003, with ages less than 50 kyr are excluded from the latest version as these are now all included in the GEOMAGIA50 database. A copy of the 2003 database compiled by Mireille Perrin and still containing the 0-50 ka data is available here available upon request. An alternative version of this database is maintained by the Borok Geophysical Observatory. Most PINT data are already in the MagIC database and new data will continue to be uploaded. Please let me know if you spot any mistakes / omissions or have any suggestions for improvements.
- December, 2022: PINT refs 782, 783 VADM column corrected to reflect difference between ZAm2 and 1x10 Am2
- October, 2022: PINT updated to v8.1.1 with three additional studies published 2021-2022.
- August, 2022: PINT updated to v8.1.0, featuring primarily studies published between 2019 and Summer 2022. We thank C. Constable and T. Carrasco for catching a typo in record UID 3514.
Additional following record UIDs have longitudes corrected: 3789-3818, 3852-3859, 4178
- November, 2021: PINT has been substantially updated to v8.0.0 (including a transition to semantic versioning). A complete description of the update can be found in Bono et al. (GJI, 2022, doi:10.1093/gji/ggab490).
- 8th May, 2015: PINT has been updated to version 2015.05 so it now has 41 additional palaeointensity estimates from 5 new references and many more MagIC links.
- 12th August, 2014: PINT has been updated to version 2014.01 with 85 new palaeointensity estimates from 11 references.
- 7th July, 2013: Th of PINT has also been updated to include hyperlinks to MagIC records via the DOIs of the published references. To access these, include references in your search and click on entries in the MagIC column. Thanks to Rupert Minnett, Nick Jarboe, and Xiao Wang for their help with linking the two databases.
- 29th May, 2013: The of PINT was updated with hyperlinks to MagIC records via the DOIs of the published references. More DOIs are on the way and the interface will also be updated with these links in the near future.
- 15th August, 2012: new data from 14 references were added to the database and a number of corrections were made (contact me if you would like details). Thanks go to Elliot Hurst (University of Liverpool) for helping with this. Thanks also to Valera Shcherbakov for providing the latest version of the BorokPINT database
- 3rd December, 2010: 178 new data from 11 references were added to the database and a number of corrections were made (contact me if you would like details). Thanks go to Ashley Clarke (University of Liverpool) for doing this update as part of his MESci final year project.
- 29th July, 2009: 145 new data from 11 references were added to the database. Thanks go to Andy Roberts (University of Liverpool) for help with this.
- 10th June, 2009: 42 new data from 3 references were added. It was realised that the data carried over from PINT03 in the AGE, DAGE, SLAT, and SLONG fields were truncated after 1 decimal place (thanks to Leah Ziegler for pointing this out). This was rectified. For the sake of consistency with the rest of the database, a number of values in the DF field known to record estimates of the standard error of the mean palaeointensity were replaced with a calculated sample standard deviation (the more usual error quoted with mean palaeointensity estimates). This change was made to the 578 records associated with reference numbers 2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,15,16,17,76,84,85,86,87,114,138,153,154,172.
- 15th August, 2008: A comparison with the BorokPINT database (available from here) led to the addition of 217 new data from 14 references.