A tree for rocks-hierarchies in stratigraphic databases

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 921-928

  Huber, Robert ^a   Klump, Jens ^b   Götz, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Chronostratigraphy; Data model; Lithostratigraphy; Nested set model

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MODEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0041324886     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(03)00092-X     Document Type: Article

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