These templates and format specification for stratigraphic column data allow preparation of stratigraphic information for ingestion into Macrostrat using tabular formats (e.g., Excel spreadsheets).
New to the format?
Start with the quickstart guide and the simple template. The guide walks through a measured column step by step. When your data need more fields, use the expanded template.
Caution
This is a draft document describing ongoing work. The format described here is subject to change as the specification is implemented.
Simple template
Documentation
- Quickstart guide: building a column spreadsheet, step by step
- FAQ: common questions
- Format overview: the sheets, the two templates, and how composite and measured columns differ
- Full specification: every sheet, field, and option
- Examples: worked datasets, from chronostratigraphic charts to bed-scale measured sections
- Ingesting columns: uploading on the website or command line, and what the ingester reads so far
- Future updates: proposed changes to the format
- Editing the templates: building the Excel templates from their YAML description
Contributors
Daven Quinn, Evgeny Mazko, Amy Fromandi, and the Macrostrat team.
This work is part of the "Macrostrat v2" effort and is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant OAC-2311091 to Daven Quinn and collaborators.
